Presenter

Gabriela Bilá is a Brazilian architect, artist, and researcher, and a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, City Science Group. Her work explores immersive media, speculative design, and situated technologies, combining real-time graphics, physical interfaces, and ancestral craft knowledge to imagine place-based futures. She is also an educator and has developed and taught courses on speculative urban design and media production. Her installations have been presented internationally at venues including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, SXSW, the Venice Architecture Biennale, EXPO, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum New York.