Kleinman Forum, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Janette Kim
In this talk, Janette Kim will reflect on the potentials and pitfalls of common models of community engagement and describe strategies she employs to amplify more systemic forms of collective power. Kim will describe how she designs decision-making tools—from guidebooks to games—that spark a more informed and inclusive deliberative process with agencies and community-based organizations. She will describe her involvement in the Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenges as well as recent research on grassroots efforts to decommodify and collectivize property ownership. Then, to explore further what kind of change these tools can enable, Kim will describe her work on policy directives and structures of investment that can reshape property ownership in the face of climate risk and economic volatility.
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.
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