Bomin Kim
Bomin Kim is an urban designer and lecturer specializing in social sustainability, urban informatics, and geospatial data science. Her research advances systems methods to understand how urban environments influence social cohesion, urban resilience, and human health in vulnerable populations. She holds a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a doctorate in sustainable urbanism from Washington University in St. Louis.
Her work is widely published in peer-reviewed scientific and academic journals and regularly presented at scholarly and professional conferences. Before joining the faculty of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at WashU, she worked as an in-house building science and environmental designer at Sasaki Associates and continues to consult on sustainable design with various project teams. Her recent projects include multidisciplinary efforts supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, Novo Nordisk, and the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering and Mayor’s Office.
Select Articles, Chapters, and Publications
“Measuring What Matters: The True Cost of the National Geospatial Agency,” in Journal of Architectural Education, 2023, issue 77.1. Linda C. Samuels, Bomin Kim.
“Sites of Wounding/Sites of Healing,” 2022, Bomin Kim. Published by WashU Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity, St. Louis, Mo.
Select Exhibitions and Presentations
“Shifting the Paradigm: Measuring What Matters in Urban Design,” Bomin Kim, Linda C. Samuels; presented at APA St. Louis, 2024, St. Louis, Mo.
“Conceptualizing Loneliness: Modelling Individual Trajectories of Loneliness Across Time,” Bomin Kim; presented at International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2020, Bergen, Norway (virtual).
Select Awards and Grants
2023 — “Integrating Socio-Ecological Strategies for Flood Mitigation in Bangkok’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment,” Global Futures Small Grants
2019 — Civic Engagement Award, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2019 — Research Fellowship, Divided City Graduate Student Research Fellowship; Center for the Humanities funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
