Annie Chen is a designer, scientist, and socio-technical researcher based in the United States.

Her work explores how environmental technologies encounter human and living systems across the climate transition. She develops artifacts and systems that make these encounters legible, enabling new forms of collective sense-making across science, technology, and community life.

After graduating from the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program, she co-founded BEAM, a research-led creative studio for people & planet. She is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s design, culture, and tech incubator, in the Year 12 Creative Science cohort.

Her work has been supported by NASA Ames Research Center, MIT Media Lab, Science History Institute,
New York Foundation for the Arts, Brown University, EY Intelligent Realities Lab, and more.

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Selected Projects

🌀1 ASILOMAR
🌀2 TIDELANDS 2100
🌀3 CIVIC BIOTECHNOLOGY
🌀4 EATING THE WHOLE FISH
🌀5 NASA AMES
🌀6 BEACONS

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The Spirit of Asilomar

Video Essay
Monterey, CA
2025
Statement of Shared Stewardship

Co-Directors: Annie Chen & Zoe Lee [BEAM]
Partners: David Kong
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50 years after the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA that shaped modern biotechnology governance, we reconvened at Asilomar to rethink the future of biotechnology. As a Next Generation Fellow, I led a participatory workshop, co-developed the Statement of Shared Stewardship, and produced a video essay as a public-facing archive.

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