Jane Pirone is an artist, creative technologist, and naturalist whose work explores living systems and synthetic biology through mixed-media speculative fabulations. Their current work centers bio-based and cybernetic technologies in critical, queer, and post-human entanglement with organisms such as slime mold, bryophytes, dinoflagellates, extremophiles, planeria, sea urchins and scoby. They design and facilitate generative spaces and participatory futures as a mode of social practice that fosters collaborative and creative capacities. These have included projects focused on the future of humanitarian aid with UNHCR’s Innovation Services, permaculture explorations with Greenside Design Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, mapping queer urban geographies in Paris, advocating for sexual and reproductive rights with PPNYC, and imagining the future of cities and mobility in Seattle & New York City, USA, Kathmandu, Nepal, Shenzhen & Shanghai, China, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jane is co-chair of the Biodesign Working Group of CUMULUS, was a recent fellow at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, and has been awarded an affiliated fellowship at the American Academy Rome in 22-23. They are an Associate Professor of Design Ecologies at Parsons School of Design and served as Dean of the School of Design Strategies and as Director of the Communication Design program.