How can designers create material conditions that allow living systems to participate as co-authors of form?

Most contemporary design objects are static and disconnected from biological processes, despite living systems demonstrating adaptive growth, repair, and environmental responsiveness. If a product is grown rather than manufactured, it becomes adaptive, co-evolving, and regenerative. This work reframes the designer not as an author of form, but as a facilitator of living systems, challenging extractive, anthropocentric design models. This investigates how computational design can structure environments that influence living organisms, exploring new possibilities for bio-interfaces and responsive material systems.