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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EATING THE WHOLE FISH

Creative Direction, Writing
Providence, RI
2025Publication

Collaborators: Kayla Feng, Zoe Lee
Partners: Eating with the Ecosystem
200 pp. Swiss Bound

Eating the Whole Fish is a 200-page illustrated book, produced with Eating with the Ecosystem, exploring sustainable seafood, local fisheries, and underutilized species through recipes and visual storytelling.

Funders: Playbook Fund, Interlace Grant Fund

Pre-orders for Eating the Whole Fish open this September, with the full release in November 2026. Launch events will take place in Providence and NYC, in partnership with NEW INC, the New Museum’s art and culture incubator.

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