Janette Kim is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on the intersection between ecology, social equity and the built environment. Kim will give a presentation as part of the Department of Design’s Research in Design Speaker Series. Her talk is Friday, April 10, 12- p.m. in Cruess Hall Room 1105. The event is free and open to the public.

An associate professor of architecture and co-director of the Urban Works Agency at California College of the Arts, Kim is a founding principal of the design practice All of the Above. Her projects include the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, the Win-Win board game series, the Safari audio tours on urban ecology (with Kate Orff and MTWTF), and the Fall Kill Creek Master Plan. With All of the Above, Kim has also designed a boutique hotel in Sichuan, the Pinterest headquarters (with First Office) and the National AIDS Memorial (with Chloe Town). She is the author of The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform (Princeton Architectural Press 2015, with Erik Carver). 

Kim has worked in partnership with municipal agencies such as the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York, and the City of Newark, as well as non-profit advocacy groups such as the East Oakland Collective, Dellums Institute for Social Justice, and the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Her work has been awarded by the Graham Foundation, AIA San Francisco, and the Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship, and has been featured in NPR’s ‘Brian Lehrer Show,’ Artforum, Architect, Frame, GOOD, and the feature-length documentary, The Grove. Janette’s work has been exhibited at YBCA; the Oslo Architecture Trienniale; in subway systems in New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Sao Paulo; a private house in Levittown, NY; and galleries including Artists Space, Eyebeam and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. 

The Department of Design is part of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.