Marcelo Coelho is Director of the MIT Design Intelligence Lab and Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT Department of Architecture. Spanning a wide range of media, processes, and scales, his work explores how we embody and physically interact with computation, creating new forms of expression and collaboration between human and machine intelligence.

Marcelo’s work has been exhibited internationally, including places such as the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Rio 2016 Paralympic Ceremonies, Times Square, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Ars Electronica, and can be found in museums, private collections, and billions of products sold all over the world. Recognition for this work includes two Prix Ars Electronica awards, Design Miami/ Designer of the Future Award, Red Dot Design Award, and Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award.

Marcelo holds a doctorate degree from the MIT Media Lab and is also a co-founder of playgeni, a startup incubated at MITdesignX that is creating new forms of audio-based storytelling using generative AI.