Kīlauea Iki Crater, Island of Hawai'i (2024)
Emily Kim is a designer and researcher of landscapes.
She received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2025, where her research centered on Tinian, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. This study of a heavily infrastructural and militarized landscape focused particularly on the construction and maintenance of Tinian as part of a broader spatial typology that frames places—particularly islands—as both paradise and wasteland.
Her research approaches design as a methodological practice: operating through mapping, archival analysis, and visual storytelling to make spatial histories legible. At the core of her practice is the question of access—who gets to see, to know, to belong—and how design can expose or redraw these boundaries.
She is currently based in Ireland, where she is part of a team merging landscape biography and digital twin technology to study the coastal dunes of Tramore. She enjoys working across borders, and welcomes collaborations that challenge how landscapes are studied, represented, and shared. Please get in touch.
emilykim@gsd.harvard.edu / ehkimchi@gmail.com
cv︎︎︎ / portfolio available upon request
︎ are.na / ︎ instagram / ︎ linkedin
She received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2025, where her research centered on Tinian, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. This study of a heavily infrastructural and militarized landscape focused particularly on the construction and maintenance of Tinian as part of a broader spatial typology that frames places—particularly islands—as both paradise and wasteland.
Her research approaches design as a methodological practice: operating through mapping, archival analysis, and visual storytelling to make spatial histories legible. At the core of her practice is the question of access—who gets to see, to know, to belong—and how design can expose or redraw these boundaries.
She is currently based in Ireland, where she is part of a team merging landscape biography and digital twin technology to study the coastal dunes of Tramore. She enjoys working across borders, and welcomes collaborations that challenge how landscapes are studied, represented, and shared. Please get in touch.
emilykim@gsd.harvard.edu / ehkimchi@gmail.com
cv︎︎︎ / portfolio available upon request
︎ are.na / ︎ instagram / ︎ linkedin
*This website was last updated: 12 Jan. 2026