Jelisa Blumberg

Jelisa Blumberg is a transdisciplinary designer, educator and researcher, with a focus on architecture and lighting design, based in Baltimore, Maryland and New York City, NY.

Her practice, Un–Other Practice, looks to spatial intervention and emergent theory as a framework for facilitating possibility and radical imagination in the built environment. Jelisa’s work prioritizes networks of trust and collective strategy over traditional modes of practice.

Jelisa is a core member of Dark Matter University and a recipient of GSAPP’s Dean’s Unlearning Whiteness Research Award (2022). She holds a Masters of Architecture and a Masters of Fine Arts in Lighting Design and a BFA in Design.