Elise Misao Hunchuck (b.
Toronto, CA), MLA (Daniels, Toronto) is a spatial researcher, editor, curator, educator,
and artist. Based between Berlin and Milan, her transdisciplinary practice brings
together architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and media studies to research
sites in Canada, US, Japan, China, and Ukraine. She documents, studies, and archives the
co-constitutive relationships between plants, animals, and minerals by employing text,
images, and cartographies.
Elise is currently one of the 2024–2026 Fellows (spatial, architecture and design) at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (New York, US) in the M.S. Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) program (2021–2025), a senior researcher and lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2019–21), and alongside Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng, co-led the multi-year (2019–21) research project ADS7, an investigation of the politics of the atmosphere. She is an editorial board member for the journal Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy and between 2021 and 2025 was the editor and discourse curator for transmediale, the festival for digital art and culture in Berlin. ↗
LEGAL NOTICE
The copyright for published materials developed by Elise Misao Hunchuck remains with Elise Misao Hunchuck or the individual author. The use or sharing of such images, audio features, video sequences, and texts in other electronic or printed publications is permitted only with full attribution for non-commercial purposes with permission of the author.
The author reserves the right to alter, supplement, or delete parts or the whole of the website's content, or to temporarily or completely discontinue publication without notice. Any work completed by Elise Misao Hunchuck under non-disclosure agreements is not published unless with the express permission of those parties. Any collaborative works are clearly indicated as such.
The author has no influence whatsoever on content offered through direct or indirect links to other web providers and pages and does not endorse any content with the exception of the content on social media profiles administered by Elise Misao Hunchuck.
Elise is currently one of the 2024–2026 Fellows (spatial, architecture and design) at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (New York, US) in the M.S. Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) program (2021–2025), a senior researcher and lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2019–21), and alongside Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng, co-led the multi-year (2019–21) research project ADS7, an investigation of the politics of the atmosphere. She is an editorial board member for the journal Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy and between 2021 and 2025 was the editor and discourse curator for transmediale, the festival for digital art and culture in Berlin. ↗
LEGAL NOTICE
The copyright for published materials developed by Elise Misao Hunchuck remains with Elise Misao Hunchuck or the individual author. The use or sharing of such images, audio features, video sequences, and texts in other electronic or printed publications is permitted only with full attribution for non-commercial purposes with permission of the author.
The author reserves the right to alter, supplement, or delete parts or the whole of the website's content, or to temporarily or completely discontinue publication without notice. Any work completed by Elise Misao Hunchuck under non-disclosure agreements is not published unless with the express permission of those parties. Any collaborative works are clearly indicated as such.
The author has no influence whatsoever on content offered through direct or indirect links to other web providers and pages and does not endorse any content with the exception of the content on social media profiles administered by Elise Misao Hunchuck.
Her writing and editorial works have been published in The
Funambulist, Flash Art, Fotograf, The Architectural Review, Bloomsbury, Damaged Goods, Duke University Press, MIT Press, Onassis Foundation,
Spector Books, Sternberg Press, and Whitechapel
London. Forthcoming editorial titles include a new Radical Rituals publication, a Scapegoat
Issue 14–15 (Scapegoat). Recent publications include Arctic Practices co-edited with Bert de Jonghe (Actar), The AI Anarchies School co-edited with Clara Herrmann (Akademie der Künste,
Berlin), Arctic Practices co-edited with Bert de Jonghe (Actar), Media+Environment journal, Radical Rituals Part II co-edited with Berta
Gutiérrez Casaos and Alkistis Thomidou (Punch
Books), and Living Surfaces as English language editor to Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka (MIT Press). Previous editorial projects include Electric Brine (Archive Books, 2021) alongside Jennifer Teets and Margarida Mendes, Operational Images as English language editor for Jussi Parikka (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), and Radical Rituals (Punch Books, 2022), among others.
Forthcoming written contributions for 2026 are with Lenz Press and the University of Minnesota Press series Art after Nature on the work and legacy of Robert Smithson.
Elise is available for general enquiries, commissions, or collaborations. Please contact her directly via email at elisehunchuck [at] gmail [dot] com.
Forthcoming written contributions for 2026 are with Lenz Press and the University of Minnesota Press series Art after Nature on the work and legacy of Robert Smithson.
Elise is available for general enquiries, commissions, or collaborations. Please contact her directly via email at elisehunchuck [at] gmail [dot] com.