Elise Hunchuck

Elise Misao Hunchuck (b. tkaronto/Toronto) is a transdisciplinary researcher, editor, writer, and educator. Her practice brings together architecture, landscape architecture, and media studies to research sites in Canada, Japan, China, and Ukraine, employing text, images, and cartographies to document, explore, and archive the co-constitutive relationships between plants, animals, and minerals—in all of their forms. She is the almanac and journal editor for transmediale and one of the curatorial directors of the yearly digital and media art festival. She is an editorial board member for the journal SCAPEGOAT: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, and alongside Marco Ferrari and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, she co-leads the architectural design studio ADS7 at the Royal College of Art in London. Her writing and editorial works have been published in The Funambulist, FLASH Art, Archive Books, Edinburgh University Press, University of Minnesota Press, MIT Press, Onassis Foundation, Spector Books, and Sternberg Press.