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Intro： Suwen Wang is a London-based artist and design researcher whose practice lies at the intersection of AI, digital storytelling, and cultural heritage. He holds an MA in Digital Media Arts and is currently pursuing an MRes in Communication Research at the Royal College of Art, UK. His work reimagines how immersive technologies and narrative systems can reconnect displaced cultural artifacts with their emotional, historical, and geographic contexts. Suwen’s practice critically explores the “heritage empathy gap”—the emotional disconnection between audiences and artifacts severed from their original settings. Through AI-generated voice, text, and sound, combined with AR and 3D spatial media, his work transforms silenced objects into expressive narrative agents. By doing so, he challenges static museological displays and proposes new models of digital restitution, emotional engagement, and cross-cultural communication. Rather than positioning AI as a neutral tool, Suwen treats it as a co-author in the storytelling process, capable of mediating memory, identity, and loss. His installations humanize fragmented histories and raise awareness of cultural displacement, illegal trafficking, and the politics of representation. In doing so, he blends algorithmic processes with curatorial sensitivity to create participatory, affective experiences that foster dialogue across global audiences. As a researcher, Suwen investigates how design can restore narrative agency to marginalized objects and communities, offering new frameworks for inclusive digital heritage practices. His work advocates for emotionally intelligent systems that are culturally situated, ethically grounded, and publicly engaged.