- Role
- Interaction, UX and UI Designer
- Year
- 2025
- Context
- Domus Academy, Embodied AI Hardware workshop with Samsung
- Project leader
- Mario Crippa
- Team
- Alessandro Roasio, Erkut Ekim, Junyoung Oh, Zeynep Alkaya
Brief
Bring AI into physical objects, beyond the usual assistant, and find a use for it that lasts.
What I did
With my team I designed Genome AI, a system that connects people with the organisms of an ecosystem and with the places they live in. I worked on the interaction, the UX and the interfaces.
How it works
Small devices called Genome Grids sit in trees and other parts of the landscape and work as sensors. Together they collect environmental data in real time and keep a record of the ecosystem’s history, so people can explore a place from the point of view of the organisms that live there.
Who it’s for
Students and teachers learning science and ecology, journalists who report with live data, researchers who study biodiversity and climate, and anyone who wants a closer relationship with the places they visit.
What I learned
Designing for an ecosystem changed the question I start from: not only what people need, but what the place needs too.
ANALYSIS
Site visits are no longer the only source of information: data arrives on its own from a network of sensors spread across the ecosystem. Every update records small changes, so people can follow how nature evolves in real time.
REPORT
Reports open from the dashboard, with coordinates, timestamps and ecological trends. We designed them to be shared, so citizens, researchers and institutions can work from the same information.
DESIGN CONCEPT
Every action, from restoration to prevention, starts from simulations and live feedback from the forest’s digital twin. People act, the forest responds, and the next decision takes both into account.
