Dr. Agi Haines is an internationally exhibiting practitioner, researcher and lecturer whose research looks at the propensity for design to reevaluate the nature of the material of the body in the face of nascent biomedical and healthcare technologies.

She creates physical works using a mixture of traditional sculptural techniques and novel technologies. She defended her PhD from Plymouth University with CogNovo (Marie Curie ITN) and Transtechnology Research after graduating from a masters in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. She currently holds lecturing positions in MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martins and BA Design at Goldsmiths. She exhibits and lectures on design futures and scientific imaginaries. Some significant exhibitions include Dream Out Loud (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2017), Human+ (Art Science Museum Singapore, 2017) Future and the Arts (MORI Art Museum Tokyo, 2019), and Flex (MOD Australia, 2022/23).