Christiane M. Herr is a Professor, PhD supervisor, and Director of the BEng Industrial Design program at SUSTech. She leads the Future Ecologies Research Group, focusing on ecological design, advanced façade technologies, and digital design. She holds a Dipl.-Ing., MArch, PhD, and a second Dr.-Ing. from the University of Kassel and The University of Hong Kong. Previously, she worked at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Shenzhen University, and National Cheng Kung University. She served as President of CAADRIA for four years and is now vice-chair of the CAADFutures Foundation. She is on the editorial boards of *Journal of Architectural Computing*, *Construction Robotics*, *Sustainable Horizons* and *Architectural Intelligence* and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and co-edited *Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New* (Springer).