Create Ways of Being - Microsoft Design Art, AI, and Human-Centered Design
Qian is an AI Designer at Microsoft Copilot. She is also an artist whose work has been exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and in shows across the U.S. and Asia. She has received multiple international awards, been featured by critics in The Times, and had her work recognized by figures including Andreas Gursky. Across both design and art, she asks the same question from two directions: as AI reshapes our world, how can human beings live fully, creatively, and meaningfully? Almost overnight, we went from simply using mobile phones to living almost entirely in a digital world. Before I turned twenty, I loved sitting by the pond beneath an apricot tree on campus. I was an art student in China, the country that shaped my earliest understanding of the world. I read Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosopher, and through his stories imagined the giant bird Peng soaring across the sky, the tree Da Chun whose spring and autumn each lasted eight thousand years, and divine be