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is a designer, creative technologist and critical maker. Trained as an architect, she explores how to foster an empathetic relationship between the human body and the space around it through the implementation of emerging technologies. Her goal is to enhance the interaction between human beings and the built environment by following morphological, and behavioral principles inspired by natural systems. Her work addresses critical issues such as feminism, emotion, bodily perception and social interaction. She specializes in computational design, interactive technologies, additive manufacturing and digital fabrication technologies.

Farahi has won several awards including Digital Design Award, Innovation By Design Linda Tischler Award, (WTN) and is the recipient of the BASA and Madworkshop Grants and the Rock Hudson Fellowship. Her work is in the permanent collection of . Her work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Linz and Context Art Miami, SIGGRAPH, La Piscine Museum in France and A+D Architecture and Design Museum in LA and has been featured in several magazines and online websites including , , , , , and .

She is a co-editor of (Birkhäuser Verlag, 2023), an issue of AD, (Wiley, 2017) and author of Emotive Design (Routledge, forthcoming).

Farahi has worked with leading firms such as Adidas, Autodesk, Fuksas Studio, and 3DSystems / will-i-am. She has also collaborated with Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis on two NASA funded research projects developing a robotic fabrication technology to 3D print structures on the Moon and Mars. She has been an Artist in Residence at Autodesk Pier 9.

She has received her PhD in at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She also holds a Bachelors and two Masters degrees in Architecture. Currently, she is an at the Department of Design, California State University, Long Beach.

Behnaz Farahi visits �������� SoA on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, to kick off the new year of the Fall '23/Spring '24 Lecture Series at 3 PM at the .��