Kīlauea Iki Crater, Island of Hawai'i (2024)
Emily Kim is a designer and researcher of landscapes.
She received her Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she became obsessed with the island of Tinian. Subsequently, a deep interest in infrastructural and militarized landscapes emerged, particularly focused on their construction and maintenance as part of a broader spatial typology that frames islands as both paradise and wasteland. She believes in the transformative power of visual representation: how images shape our understanding of place, and by extension, our systems of care, neglect, and exploitation. At the core of her practice is the question of access—who gets to see, to know, to belong—and how design might bring to light or redraw inequities.
She is currently working in Ireland, but is open to collaborations across borders. Please get in touch.
emilykim@gsd.harvard.edu / ehkimchi@gmail.com
cv︎︎︎ / portfolio available upon request
︎ are.na / ︎ instagram / ︎ linkedin
She received her Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she became obsessed with the island of Tinian. Subsequently, a deep interest in infrastructural and militarized landscapes emerged, particularly focused on their construction and maintenance as part of a broader spatial typology that frames islands as both paradise and wasteland. She believes in the transformative power of visual representation: how images shape our understanding of place, and by extension, our systems of care, neglect, and exploitation. At the core of her practice is the question of access—who gets to see, to know, to belong—and how design might bring to light or redraw inequities.
She is currently working in Ireland, but is open to collaborations across borders. Please get in touch.
emilykim@gsd.harvard.edu / ehkimchi@gmail.com
cv︎︎︎ / portfolio available upon request
︎ are.na / ︎ instagram / ︎ linkedin
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