Elisa Ngan is a transdisciplinary experience designer, operations researcher, and visual poet. Her installations, publications, projects, products, and pedagogies are traversal vignettes navigating the emergent contingencies between truth, goodness, and beauty in contemporary data cultures.

Trained at the nexus of design, culture, and structure, Elisa has a B.A. in Architecture, a Masters in Design Engineering, and minors in City & Regional Planning as well as Environmental Design and Urbanism in Developing Countries. She has taught, lectured, and served as a design critic at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Parsons School of Design, Boston Architectural College, and Lawrence Technological University.
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In 2022, Elisa founded Amodal Completions LLC, a data design practice focused on researching, forecasting, and worlding the new roles, organizations, and operational workflows that need to emerge as scaffolding with frontier data-driven technology. Amodal's mission is to territorialize and amplify the most human of human intelligence by creating tools that probe the past, present, and future of data as feedback loop between humans, machines, and nature.