Lucy Siyao Liu is a designer and an architect.

My work explores systems devised to measure and model ecology.

Currently, I lead PROPS SUPPLY, a studio that specializes in branding, strategy and world building. I am a part of World Computer Consortium, a research group on natural computing, embodied technology, world models, and more.

Writing and Presentations

• “Forecasters: Prediction Machines, World Models and Oracles”, The Weather In-Between: Monsoons, Markets and Other Derivative Atmospheres, Para Site HK
• “A Place for Relating to Water”, Are.na Annual Tending, edited by Meg Miller
• Atlas of Anomalous AI, Ignota Books, edited by Ben Vickers & K Allado-McDowell, 2020
• Mud Muses: A Rant About Technology, Koenig Books, edited by Lars Bang Larsen, 2019
• Art in America, "Lucy Siyao Liu and Tung-Hui Hu on the History of Clouds in Art and Computing," interview by Emily Watlington
• "Before code, beyond speech", On Drawing Instructions, The Creative Independent

Select Teaching

• Drawing Interactions, RISD Computation, Technology and Culture
• Orthographies: New Kinds of Drawings + New Kinds of Things, MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program
• Orthographies: Drawing Operations, MIT Department of Architecture