Publications

BOOKS

Behnaz Farahi and Neil Leach (eds.). “Interactive Design: Towards a Responsive Environment”, Birkhäuser, Switzerland

Behnaz Farahi and Neil Leach (eds.). “3-D Printed Body Architecture”, Wiley, London

PEER REVIEWED PAPERS

Behnaz Farahi, Sergio Mutis, Yaluo Wang, Suwan Kim, Chenyue Dai, and Haolei Zhang. “Gaze to the Stars: AI and Public Art from Personal Affect and Collective Empathy” NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025.

Behnaz Farahi, Haolei Zhang, Suwan Kim, Sergio Mutis, Yaluo Wang, and Chenyue Dai. “Gaze to the Stars: AI, Storytelling and Public Art” NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025.

Narumi, Koya, Yuichi Hirose, Hsuanling Lee, Maria Larsson, Liang He, Mackenzie Leake, Jack Forman, Behnaz Farahi, Lining Yao, and Takeo Igarashi. “Computational Tailor-Making for Personalized, Shape-changing, and Sustainable Fabrics” UIST 2025 Adjunct Proceedings, ACM.

Behnaz Farahi, Sergio Mutis, Yaluo Wang, Suwan Kim, Chenyue Dai, and Haolei Zhang. “Gaze to the Stars: Reclaiming Public Space Through Participatory Storytelling” Media Architecture Biennale (MAB) Proceedings, 2025.

Behnaz Farahi. “Reflections on Socio-political, Cultural and Environmental Challenges through Computational Media Arts and Design" SIGGRAPH 2023 ACM Digital Library, Los Angeles, USA

Behnaz Farahi. “Returning The Gaze: Robotic Installation for the Milan Fashion Week” ACADIA 2022 Paper proceedings, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Behnaz Farahi. “CRITICAL COMPUTATION: The Gaze and Surveillance Feminism” ACADIA 2021 Paper proceedings, Los Angeles, USA

Behnaz Farahi. ““Can the Subaltern Speak?”: Feminism in Robotic Mask Design” SIGGRAPH 2021 Art Paper proceedings, Los Angeles, USA

Behnaz Farahi. “"Can the subaltern speak?": critical making in design” SIGGRAPH 2021 Art Gallery proceedings, Los Angeles, USA

Behnaz Farahi. “Iridescence: Bio-Inspired Emotive Matter” ACADIA 2019: Ubiquity and Autonomy, Published in proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference, Austin, USA

Behnaz Farahi. “Heart of the Matter: Affective Computing in Fashion and Architecture” ACADIA 2018: Recalibration: Imprecision and Infidelity, Published in proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico

Behnaz Farahi. “Caress of the Gaze: A Gaze Actuated Garment” ACADIA 2016: Posthuman Frontiers, published in Proceedings of the 36rd Annual Conference, USA

Behnaz Farahi, Neil Leach, Michael Fox, Alvin Huang. Alloplastic Architecture: The Design of an Interactive Tensegrity Structure” ACADIA 2013: Adaptive Architecture, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference, Canada

BOOK CHAPTERS

Behnaz Farahi. “The Gaze and Surveillance Feminism” in HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence, Edited by Freddy Paul Grunert, Co-editors Max Craglia, Emilia Gómez, Jutta Thielen-del Pozo, ©2022 European Union

Behnaz Farahi. “AI-Controlled Robot Masks: Resisting Patriarchal Oppression” in Neil Leach and Matias del Campo (Eds.), Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Design, Wiley, London, UK

Behnaz Farahi. “Emotive matter: application of ‘affective computing’ and ‘new materialism’ in design” in Franca Trubiano, Susan Kolber, Marta Llor, Maria Jose Fuente, Amber Farrow (Eds.) Bio/Matter/techno/synthetics: Design Futures for the More Than Human, Actar.

Behnaz Farahi. “Emotional Intelligence: Affective Computing in Architecture and Design” in Philip Yuan et al. (eds.), Architectural Intelligence, Springer

Behnaz Farahi. “Robotic 3D printed Body Architecture” in Jose Sanchez (ed.), The Blindspot Initiative: Design Resistance and Alternative Modes of Practice, Evolo

Behnaz Farahi. “From Material Expressivity to Material Interaction” in Skylar Tibbits (ed.), Active Matter, MIT Press, MA

Behnaz Farahi, ‘Material Behaviors in 3D Printing’ in Philip Yuan, Achim Menges and Neil Leach (eds.), Digital Fabrication, Tongji University Press, Shanghai

Behnaz Farahi, ‘3D Printed Body Architecture’ in Philip Yuan, Achim Menges and Neil Leach (eds.), Digital Fabrication, Tongji University Press, Shanghai

Behnaz Farahi. “Material Behaviors in 3D Printed Fashion Items” in Neil Leach and Behnaz Farahi (eds.), 3D Printed BodyArchitecture, Wiley, London

Behnaz Farahi. “From Architecture to Wearables” in Mahesh Daas, Andrew John Wit, Towards a Robotic Architecture, ORO Editions, Novato, CA

Behnaz Farahi, "Living Buildings"in Michael Fox (ed.), Interactive Architecture: Adaptive world, Princeton Archite​​c​tural Press, New York.

Behnaz Farahi, "Living Breathing Buildings" in Michael Fox (ed.), Interactive Architecture: Adaptive world, Princeton Archite​​c​t​ural Press, New York.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Matter and Meaning: A Crisis Between Facts and Social Meaning in Design. Offramp’s 17th issue by the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

Material Expressivity in Active Materials, Esse Arts+ Opinions, No. 101, New Materialism

Second Skin: A Gaze-Actuated 3D Printed Garment, A+R+P+A, issue 4.

Behnaz Farahi. “Luminous Texture”, Architecture and Culture, vol.11, No.38, pp. 3-12, Iran

Behnaz Farahi. “To Light up Milad Tower: Interactive Public Art”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice, Italy

Behnaz Farahi. “Urban Image Lighting”, Architecture and Culture, vol.10, No.35, pp. 10-16 Iran

FEATURES IN MAGAZINES

Harper's Bazaar Arabia highlights middle eastern women in LA, Harper's Bazaar Arabia, April.

Popular Machine, No 11, Russia, November

“Wall Whisperer: Behnaz Farahi’s Interactive Installations Breathe Life into Static Architecture”, Interview with Frame Magazine, #100 September/October

“In search for the Immersive Environment”, Interview with Sculpture Magazine, November

“2050: Designing Our Tomorrow”, Architectural Design