Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with natural phenomena and complex systems. She is Pathway Leader on the MA Art and Science and Convenor of the Art and Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), UK, a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow, and chairs London LASER, a regular talks series on the intersections of art and science.
Barnett has held Research Fellowships at the University of Sussex, the University of Swansea and the London School of Economics, and consulted on arts, health and science projects for organisations such as the Wellcome Trust and the Science Museum. She has exhibited widely in art galleries, science museums and public venues, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum, Wellcome Collection (London), the Pompidou Centre (Paris), the New Institute (Rotterdam), and Observatory (New York). She is a Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Materials and Chemical Technology at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Working with the Hara Lab, Barnett will develop novel interdisciplinary collaborative practices and foster discussions around science & technology and art & design hybrid innovation and speculative design. She will particularly focus on how we observe, influence and understand self-assemblies, networks, systems and ecologies, and the underlying principles of emergence in natural and cultural systems.