Kīlauea Iki Crater, Island of Hawai'i
Emily Kim was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and now resides in Ireland’s Sunny South East.
She has worked as a designer across mediums for over a decade. More recently, she received her Master's in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design (’25), re-focusing her design interests and practice through the lens of landscape.
In her current role, she splits her time between landscape research (creating a digital twin of a littoral landscape) and lecturing (pushing Landscape pedagogy onto B.Arch/BIM undergrads). Her research more broadly focuses on the ways we represent and/or obscure landscapes (especially islands), and the ramifications that has on how we understand, experience, and shape the world around us.
In her free time, she likes to test the limits of Ireland’s public transportation system; explore local AllTrails hikes; learn how to ring 300kg+ bells; and photograph every cow, sheep, bird, and tree she passes.
She also enjoys working on collaborative projects with passionate people from disparate & similar fields on projects of all sizes. If anything said above︎︎︎, below︎︎︎, or within︎︎︎ is of interest, please reach out.
emilyhkim -at- alumni.harvard.edu / emily.kim -at- setu.ie
cv︎︎︎ / portfolio available upon request
substack / are.na / instagram / linkedin
In her current role, she splits her time between landscape research (creating a digital twin of a littoral landscape) and lecturing (pushing Landscape pedagogy onto B.Arch/BIM undergrads). Her research more broadly focuses on the ways we represent and/or obscure landscapes (especially islands), and the ramifications that has on how we understand, experience, and shape the world around us.
In her free time, she likes to test the limits of Ireland’s public transportation system; explore local AllTrails hikes; learn how to ring 300kg+ bells; and photograph every cow, sheep, bird, and tree she passes.
She also enjoys working on collaborative projects with passionate people from disparate & similar fields on projects of all sizes. If anything said above︎︎︎, below︎︎︎, or within︎︎︎ is of interest, please reach out.
emilyhkim -at- alumni.harvard.edu / emily.kim -at- setu.ie
cv︎︎︎ / portfolio available upon request
substack / are.na / instagram / linkedin
*This page was last updated: Oct. 2026