The Weitzman School Presents: Janette Kim

On January 25, 2024, the Department of Landscape Architecture welcomed Janette Kim for a lecture titled "From Community Engagement to Collective Power."
Janette Kim is an architectural designer and scholar based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kim is associate professor at California College of the Arts, where she co-directs the Urban Works Agency, and founding principal of design firm All of the Above. Kim’s work focuses on the politics of ecology. She works across media in partnership with community-based organizations and municipal agencies to realize a more equitable redistribution of land and resources. Kim’s research projects include the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, the Bartertown and In It Together board games, The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015), and Safari audio tours on urban ecology. Kim has been awarded by the Architecture League’s Emerging Voices award; exhibited by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Oslo Architecture Triennale, and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority; and featured by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Fast Company, and Metropolis, among other publications.