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 specialises in creating physical works using a mixture of traditional sculptural techniques and novel technologies.

The human body consists of practicable elements that can be easily manipulated and engineered. Through surgical procedures our bodies can be stretched, shifted and sewn, yet still be functional. What then would stop us searching for a higher level of function than we have now? Especially if it may have the potential to benefit the younger, more vulnerable and more malleable generation?

'Transfigurations' depicts designs for potential body enhancements that have been surgically implemented. Each modification is put in place to imagine how these techniques could ‘solve’ a potential future problem for the baby, ranging from medical to environmental to social mobility issues, but at what physical, mental, social and economic cost?

Haines exhibits and lectures on design futures and scientific imaginaries. Some significant exhibitions include Dream Out Loud (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2017), Human+ (ArtScience Museum Singapore, 2017), Future and the Arts (Mori Art Museum Tokyo, 2019), and Flex (MOD Australia, 2022/23). Haines currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom.