Janette Kim | Coral Courts Lecture

Janette 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 in partnership with community-based organizations and municipal agencies to realize a more equitable redistribution of land and resources. Janette’s projects include the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge; the In It Together and Bartertown board games; The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform (Princeton Architectural Press 2015, with Erik Carver); the Safari audio tours on urban ecology (with Kate Orff and MTWTF); a hotel in Sichuan, China; the Pinterest headquarters (with First Office); and the National AIDS Memorial (with Chloe Town). Kim is currently working on her second book, which illustrates how activists and architects can work together to co-opt property law and foster a just and ecologically vibrant built environment