DECEMBER 2025
CoWave
Combining 3D printing, neuroscience and AI for customizable
sustainable design
by Aga Blonska
3D printing, neuroscience and AI
CoWave brings together 3D printing, neuroscience, AI and sustainable design to create deeply personal artworks. Instead of following trends, it starts from something more fundamental: emotion. During a brief visual session, a person’s brainwaves are measured using EEG technology. This data is then translated by an AI model into a unique 3D design.
The sculptural wall panels are made from circular materials such as olive waste, wood dust and bioplastics. An inner reaction or thought becomes a tangible, durable object. Each work captures an emotional state, such as calmness, curiosity or excitement, and transforms it into a spatial form.
CoWave shifts the role of the designer: it is no longer the hand, but the mind that takes centre stage. The project has evolved into the broader design philosophy called Metameris, where biophilic design, neuroscience and sustainability converge. In a world where technology often leads to uniformity, CoWave chooses radical personalisation instead: every emotion its own form.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aga Blonska
Architect and designer Aga Blonska (1987, Poznań, Poland) combines architecture, design and technology in her work. She explores how new materials, digital techniques and emotions shape the way people interact with their surroundings.
Blonska often works with sustainable and natural materials, creating designs that can decay or be reused. In her project New Dawn (Nuevo Alta) she created a fully biodegradable lamp, 3D-printed with a natural material (PHA) produced through a biological process. With this, she shows how decay can also be a form of renewal.
In CoWave, she investigates how emotions can be transformed into art. She uses brainwaves (EEG) and artificial intelligence to design wall sculptures made from recycled materials.
Blonska studied architecture at the University of the Arts in Poznań and further specialised in spatial design and robotics in Zurich and Barcelona. She founded her own design practice, Aga Blonska Studio, and is the director of CoWave. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited at major international design events, including Milan Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Dubai Design Week and GLUE Amsterdam.