EDUCATION
2013–2016 Master of Landscape Architecture, MLA
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA. Thesis: Between the Land and the Sea (2016)
Advisor: Professor Jane Wolff.
2009–2013 Honours Bachelor of the Arts, Hon. BA
University of Toronto, Toronto, CA. Specialist in Philosophy and Geography.
TEACHING
2026 Distinguished Visiting Critic. Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. Ottawa, CA.
2022–2025 Visiting Assistant Professor. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University. New York, US.
2020–2021 Visiting Assistant Professor. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto. Toronto, CA.
2019–2022 Visiting Senior Lecturer. School of Architecture, Royal College of Art. London, UK.
2019–2022 Distinguished Visiting Critic. Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. Ottawa, CA.
2019–2022 Senior Researcher and Tutor (MArch, MLA). The Bartlett School of Architecture and Built Environment, University College of London. London, UK.
2019 Education Track Instructor (with Dubravka Sekulic and Jonathan Solomon). Making Futures School, Floating University and Haus der Statistik with Universität der Künste on the occasion of 100 jahre bauhaus. Berlin, Germany.
2013–2016 Master of Landscape Architecture, MLA
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA. Thesis: Between the Land and the Sea (2016)
Advisor: Professor Jane Wolff.
2009–2013 Honours Bachelor of the Arts, Hon. BA
University of Toronto, Toronto, CA. Specialist in Philosophy and Geography.
TEACHING
2026 Distinguished Visiting Critic. Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. Ottawa, CA.
2022–2025 Visiting Assistant Professor. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University. New York, US.
2020–2021 Visiting Assistant Professor. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto. Toronto, CA.
2019–2022 Visiting Senior Lecturer. School of Architecture, Royal College of Art. London, UK.
2019–2022 Distinguished Visiting Critic. Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. Ottawa, CA.
2019–2022 Senior Researcher and Tutor (MArch, MLA). The Bartlett School of Architecture and Built Environment, University College of London. London, UK.
2019 Education Track Instructor (with Dubravka Sekulic and Jonathan Solomon). Making Futures School, Floating University and Haus der Statistik with Universität der Künste on the occasion of 100 jahre bauhaus. Berlin, Germany.
EDITING
2027–2028
Co-editor. Arctic Commons series. Co-editor Bert De Jonghe. Danish Architectural Press. Forthcoming
2026
Co-editor. Radical Rituals: Romania. Co-editors Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos. Punch Bucharest. Forthcoming.
2025
Co-editor. Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World. Co-editor Bert De Jonghe. Actar Publishers.
2024
Editor. transmediale journal: content.
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
Editor, designer. Oceanic Refractions. Open access digital compendium. www.oceanicrefractions.org
Co-editor. The AI Anarchies Book. Co-editors Clara Hermmann and Maya Ganesh. Akademie der Künste.
English language editor. “Special Issue: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience.” Media and Environment Journal. Co-editors Maximilian Gregor Hepach and Birgit Schneider. Universität Potsdam und Fachhochschule Potsdam.
Co-editor. Radical Rituals II. Co-editors Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos. Punch Bucharest.
2023
Editor. transmediale journal: on scale.
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE. (also published with incomplete attribution as part of: A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale. Aksioma, 2024.)
English language editor. Environment, Data, Contamination. Co-editors Jussi Parikka and Samir Bhowmik. The University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki). Part of the Helsinki Biennale 2023.
2022
Editor. transmediale journal: for refusal.
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
Editor. Radical Rituals. Co-editors Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos. Punch Bucharest.
2021
Co-editor. Electric Brine. Co-editor with Margarida Mendes and Editor Jennifer Teets. Archive Books.
2019
Co-editor. make city: A Compendium of Urban Alternatives (Stadt anders machen). Co-editors Lukas Staudinger and Nora Unger. jovis verlag.
2017
Copyeditor and transcription. Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic. Editors Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan, Axel Wieder. Bergen Kunsthall and Sternberg Press.
2016
Co-editor. The Annual. Co-editor with Jasper Flores and Dayne Roy-Caldwell. Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Design Student Union.
2020–current
English language editor. For Jussi Parikka’s books, chapters, and articles, incl. Photography Off the Scale (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), Living Surfaces (MIT Press, 2024), and others.
2017–current
Editorial board member. Scapegoat: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy.
WRITING (A selection)
2026
Author. Hunchuck, E. “The Vertical Threshold: Three Registers of the Tōhoku Coastline,“ in Transscalar Architecture, ed. Andrés Jaque, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and Joanna Joseph. Columbia Books on
Architecture and the City. Forthcoming.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “The Specimen and the Territory: On Insect Collecting, Colonial Knowledge, and the Named World,“ in Metamorphosis of the Insectarium, ed. Andrea Bagnato. Lenz Press. Forthcoming.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Blues Water, Blues Architecture: The Resignifying of Haus der Kulturen der Welt.” HKW Digital Series. https://www.hkw.de/ en/programme/publications/elise-misao-hunchuckblues- water-blues-architecture. July 27, 2026.
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng. “Sky River” in Incomputable Earth: Digital Technologies and the Anthropocene, ed. Antonia Majaca. Bloomsbury Academic Series: Theory in the New Humanities. Series ed. Rosi Braidotti.
2025
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Waterscapes” in 100 Words for Water: A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary, eds. Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño. Lars Müller Publishers, 2025.
2024
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Tickling the Dragon’s Tail: The Interscalar Vehicles of Michael Wang’s Yellow Earth” in Yellow Earth, 2024.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Trusting Movement,“ in WALKING, ed. Tom Jeffreys. Documents of Contemporary Art series. Whitechapel Gallery, London and MIT Press, 2024.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Cloud Studies,” in Let’s Not Get Used to this Space. eds. Astrid Kaminski and Meg Stuart. Damaged Goods, 2024.
2023
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Dry Ice.” Review of Antarctic Resolution in The Architectural Review: Deserts. October 2023.
2022
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Clouds,” in Words of Weather: A Glossary. eds. Jussi Parikka and Daphne Dragona. Onassis Foundation.
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng. Rivière céleste. Paris: Habitante 3, 2022.
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Dubravka Sekulic and Jonathan Solomon. “Konversation über space literacy” in Reflektion über das Thema Raum als Macht, Making Futures Bauhaus+. Spector Books, 2022.
2021
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng. “Prologue to Sky River,” in The Avery Review, no. 53. Spring 2021.
2020
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Jussi Parikka. “Eight Fragments on Eight Stones” for Rick Silva and Nicolas Sassoon’s CORES. https://s-i-g-n-a-l-s.com/cores
Author. Hunchuck, E. Feature: “Olafur Eliasson: Planetary metabolism and charismatic landscapes of the cryosphere,” in FLASH Art, June-August, 2020.
2019
Author. Hunchuck, E. Feature article: “Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown” in FLASH Art, June-August, 2019.
Author and photographer. Hunchuck, E. “Research Corner: Chernobyl After Chernobyl” in Ground Magazine, 2019.
2018
Author. Hunchuck, E. “An Incomplete Atlas: The tsunami stones of Japan,” in The Funambulist: Cartography of Power. Paris: The Funambulist, June-July 2018.
2017
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Making Space: on the need for intersectional feminism in architecture school,” in The Funambulist: Islands. Paris: The Funambulist, January-February 2017. Author. Hunchuck, E. “Between Land and Sea,” in The Annual. Toronto: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and GALDSU, June 2017.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Enter the Diorama: The Museum as an Archipelago,” in The Annual. Toronto: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and GALDSU, June 2017.
2016 Co-author. Hunchuck, Elise, Jane Wol and Elise Shelley. “Landscape Performance Case Study: HTO,” “Landscape Performance Case Study: Sherbourne Common,” and “Landscape Performance Case Study: Corktown Common,” in Landscape Performance Case Studies. Washington, D.C.: Landscape Architecture Foundation, Summer 2016.
LECTURES (A selection)
2026
It’s a Match!, organized by Anna-Maria Meister, Anna Luise Schubert, and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Florence, and online, June 8, 2026.
2025
Stones and Clouds. ST+A+R+TS4Water II Event OGR Torino and Politecnico di Milano. Milano, Italy. November, 2025.
2024
Sky Rivers and Wet Dreams. WET DREAMS, MAYRIT 2024. Madrid Biennial of Design and Architecture. Curator: Marina Otero Verzier. CENTRO CENTRO, Madrid, Spain. September, 2024.
2023
Out of Thin Air. Counter-Futuring. ICI-Berlin. Berlin, DE. September 2023.
What kind of a thing is a cloud? California College of the Arts. April 2023.
Transmissions: An Incomplete Atlas of Stones and the Transboundary Hydro-geo-logics of the Sky River. Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium: Real Time. Cornell University. College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ithaca, NY. April 2023.
Ways of Working: Atmospheric Topologies. OPN Lecture Series. Iowa State University Department of Architecture. March 2023.
2022
The Third Atmosphere. The University of the Arts Helsinki. Helsinki, FI. September 2022.
Sky River. WATERSCAPE. Fundació Enric Miralles, Barcelona ES. September 2022.
Architectural Positions. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). September 2022.
On the production of weather. TU Dublin. Dublin, IR. June 2022.
Thinking Landscape at a Planetary Scale with Alexandra Arenes and Albena Yaneva and Kim Foerster at MARG, Manchester School of Architecture. Manchester, UK. May 2022.
2021
Vulnerable Plants. Vulnerable Beings. MAAT. Lisbon, PT. November 2021.
Sky River: Politics of the Atmosphere. Matters of Activity. Disentangling Perspectives in Material Research. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, DE. October 2021.
Sky River: Politics of the Atmosphere. Atmospheres Lectures. New Centre. New York, US. September 2021.
Seven Questions. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Cambridge, US. September 2021.
Architectural Positions. Faculty of Architecture. TU Delft. Delft, NL. September 2021.
Entangled Studios Seminar. Advanced Architecture. GSAPP, Columbia. New York, US. July 2021.
Event moderator. Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse. HEAD and HEPA. Geneva, CH. May 2021.
Making the Public-Commons. Texas A&M University. Houston, US. April 2021. Masterclass: Learning with Landscapes. Bartlett School of Architecture and Built Environment. UCL, London. April 2021.
Landscape as Affective Image. Surrounded by a fog of virtual images. Research Seminar symposium with Matthew Gandy. EPFL. March 2021.
Atmosphere. Territory as a Project: Ocean, Land, Atmosphere. TU Delft. Delft, NL. March 2021.
2020
Alpine Samplings studio. School of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. Gestaltung 1. November, 2020.
2019
Publishing as a critical practice: A conversation with Sinthujan Varatharajah, Dubravka Sekulic and Elise Hunchuck. Launch of The Funambulist 25, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, September 2019.
2019 Spatial Justice: Investigative Methodologies roundtable with Brian Hioe, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Lachlan Kermode and Elise Hunchuck. Flaneur Festival – 20.5 hours at HKW.
2019
Chornobyl after Chernobyl: At the Edge of the Visible. NONUMENT Symposium, Centrum architektury a mesteskeho planovani. Prague, CZ. June 2019.
Toxic Atmospheres. Contour Biennale 9 in collaboration with kunstcentrum nona. Mechelen, BE. May 2019.
2018
Transgressions and Regressions: An incomplete atlas. POLIS Landscape and Urbanism Week, TU Delft, Delft, ND. October 2018.
On publishing and research as a political practice. Fieldwork Symposium: Political Architecture and Critical Sustainability, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen, DK. May 2018.
Landscape Performance Metrics for Design in the Public Realm: a Toronto Case Study. B.E.S.T. Lecture Series at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, CA. March 2018.
Between the land and the sea: on the coastlines of the Japanese archipelago. AA School of Architecture, Landscape Urbanism MSc/MArch, London, UK. February 2018.
2017
Cartographies for Cities Yet to Come: Points, Lines, and Fields. Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia in cooperation with the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, UK. Tallinn, ES. April 2017.
2016
For the City Yet to Come: Performance Case Studies. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto. Toronto, CA. September 2016.
PANEL 02: beyond diversity. Co-founder, Co- Organizer & Co-Moderator with Vanessa Abrams, Venessa Heddle and Max Yuristy. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, CA. April 2016.
2013
Women In Architecture: Toronto. Co-Organizer with Betsy Williamson, Shirley Blumberg, Jeannie Kim, and Jocelyn Squires. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, CA. March 2013.
Aerial Evidence in Zones of Conflict: a conversation and master class with Laura Kurgan and Caren Kaplan. Co-organized with Deborah Cowen, Mary Lou Lobsinger, and Charles Stankievech. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design. University of Toronto, CA. March 2013.
LECTURES, PEER-REVIEWED
2019
Author. “An Incomplete Atlas of Stones,” Telling the Stories of Science: History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Utrecht, NL. July 2019.
2018
Author. “At the Edges of the Visible,“ The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone: Thinking the Site On-site with Margret Grebowicz, Lindsey Freeman, and Adrian Ivakhiv. Out of Mind: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Toronto CA. November 2018.
2017
Co-author. Hunchuck, E., Jane Wol and Elise Shelley. “Landscape Performance Metrics for Design in the Public Realm: a Toronto Case Study” at the World Design Summit 2017. Montreal, CA. Fall 2017.
2027–2028
Co-editor. Arctic Commons series. Co-editor Bert De Jonghe. Danish Architectural Press. Forthcoming
2026
Co-editor. Radical Rituals: Romania. Co-editors Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos. Punch Bucharest. Forthcoming.
2025
Co-editor. Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World. Co-editor Bert De Jonghe. Actar Publishers.
2024
Editor. transmediale journal: content.
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
Editor, designer. Oceanic Refractions. Open access digital compendium. www.oceanicrefractions.org
Co-editor. The AI Anarchies Book. Co-editors Clara Hermmann and Maya Ganesh. Akademie der Künste.
English language editor. “Special Issue: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience.” Media and Environment Journal. Co-editors Maximilian Gregor Hepach and Birgit Schneider. Universität Potsdam und Fachhochschule Potsdam.
Co-editor. Radical Rituals II. Co-editors Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos. Punch Bucharest.
2023
Editor. transmediale journal: on scale.
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE. (also published with incomplete attribution as part of: A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale. Aksioma, 2024.)
English language editor. Environment, Data, Contamination. Co-editors Jussi Parikka and Samir Bhowmik. The University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki). Part of the Helsinki Biennale 2023.
2022
Editor. transmediale journal: for refusal.
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
Editor. Radical Rituals. Co-editors Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos. Punch Bucharest.
2021
Co-editor. Electric Brine. Co-editor with Margarida Mendes and Editor Jennifer Teets. Archive Books.
2019
Co-editor. make city: A Compendium of Urban Alternatives (Stadt anders machen). Co-editors Lukas Staudinger and Nora Unger. jovis verlag.
2017
Copyeditor and transcription. Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic. Editors Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan, Axel Wieder. Bergen Kunsthall and Sternberg Press.
2016
Co-editor. The Annual. Co-editor with Jasper Flores and Dayne Roy-Caldwell. Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Design Student Union.
2020–current
English language editor. For Jussi Parikka’s books, chapters, and articles, incl. Photography Off the Scale (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), Living Surfaces (MIT Press, 2024), and others.
2017–current
Editorial board member. Scapegoat: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy.
WRITING (A selection)
2026
Author. Hunchuck, E. “The Vertical Threshold: Three Registers of the Tōhoku Coastline,“ in Transscalar Architecture, ed. Andrés Jaque, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and Joanna Joseph. Columbia Books on
Architecture and the City. Forthcoming.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “The Specimen and the Territory: On Insect Collecting, Colonial Knowledge, and the Named World,“ in Metamorphosis of the Insectarium, ed. Andrea Bagnato. Lenz Press. Forthcoming.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Blues Water, Blues Architecture: The Resignifying of Haus der Kulturen der Welt.” HKW Digital Series. https://www.hkw.de/ en/programme/publications/elise-misao-hunchuckblues- water-blues-architecture. July 27, 2026.
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng. “Sky River” in Incomputable Earth: Digital Technologies and the Anthropocene, ed. Antonia Majaca. Bloomsbury Academic Series: Theory in the New Humanities. Series ed. Rosi Braidotti.
2025
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Waterscapes” in 100 Words for Water: A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary, eds. Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño. Lars Müller Publishers, 2025.
2024
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Tickling the Dragon’s Tail: The Interscalar Vehicles of Michael Wang’s Yellow Earth” in Yellow Earth, 2024.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Trusting Movement,“ in WALKING, ed. Tom Jeffreys. Documents of Contemporary Art series. Whitechapel Gallery, London and MIT Press, 2024.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Cloud Studies,” in Let’s Not Get Used to this Space. eds. Astrid Kaminski and Meg Stuart. Damaged Goods, 2024.
2023
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Dry Ice.” Review of Antarctic Resolution in The Architectural Review: Deserts. October 2023.
2022
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Clouds,” in Words of Weather: A Glossary. eds. Jussi Parikka and Daphne Dragona. Onassis Foundation.
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng. Rivière céleste. Paris: Habitante 3, 2022.
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Dubravka Sekulic and Jonathan Solomon. “Konversation über space literacy” in Reflektion über das Thema Raum als Macht, Making Futures Bauhaus+. Spector Books, 2022.
2021
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Marco Ferrari and Jingru Cyan Cheng. “Prologue to Sky River,” in The Avery Review, no. 53. Spring 2021.
2020
Co-author. Hunchuck, E. with Jussi Parikka. “Eight Fragments on Eight Stones” for Rick Silva and Nicolas Sassoon’s CORES. https://s-i-g-n-a-l-s.com/cores
Author. Hunchuck, E. Feature: “Olafur Eliasson: Planetary metabolism and charismatic landscapes of the cryosphere,” in FLASH Art, June-August, 2020.
2019
Author. Hunchuck, E. Feature article: “Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown” in FLASH Art, June-August, 2019.
Author and photographer. Hunchuck, E. “Research Corner: Chernobyl After Chernobyl” in Ground Magazine, 2019.
2018
Author. Hunchuck, E. “An Incomplete Atlas: The tsunami stones of Japan,” in The Funambulist: Cartography of Power. Paris: The Funambulist, June-July 2018.
2017
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Making Space: on the need for intersectional feminism in architecture school,” in The Funambulist: Islands. Paris: The Funambulist, January-February 2017. Author. Hunchuck, E. “Between Land and Sea,” in The Annual. Toronto: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and GALDSU, June 2017.
Author. Hunchuck, E. “Enter the Diorama: The Museum as an Archipelago,” in The Annual. Toronto: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and GALDSU, June 2017.
2016 Co-author. Hunchuck, Elise, Jane Wol and Elise Shelley. “Landscape Performance Case Study: HTO,” “Landscape Performance Case Study: Sherbourne Common,” and “Landscape Performance Case Study: Corktown Common,” in Landscape Performance Case Studies. Washington, D.C.: Landscape Architecture Foundation, Summer 2016.
LECTURES (A selection)
2026
It’s a Match!, organized by Anna-Maria Meister, Anna Luise Schubert, and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Florence, and online, June 8, 2026.
2025
Stones and Clouds. ST+A+R+TS4Water II Event OGR Torino and Politecnico di Milano. Milano, Italy. November, 2025.
2024
Sky Rivers and Wet Dreams. WET DREAMS, MAYRIT 2024. Madrid Biennial of Design and Architecture. Curator: Marina Otero Verzier. CENTRO CENTRO, Madrid, Spain. September, 2024.
2023
Out of Thin Air. Counter-Futuring. ICI-Berlin. Berlin, DE. September 2023.
What kind of a thing is a cloud? California College of the Arts. April 2023.
Transmissions: An Incomplete Atlas of Stones and the Transboundary Hydro-geo-logics of the Sky River. Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium: Real Time. Cornell University. College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ithaca, NY. April 2023.
Ways of Working: Atmospheric Topologies. OPN Lecture Series. Iowa State University Department of Architecture. March 2023.
2022
The Third Atmosphere. The University of the Arts Helsinki. Helsinki, FI. September 2022.
Sky River. WATERSCAPE. Fundació Enric Miralles, Barcelona ES. September 2022.
Architectural Positions. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). September 2022.
On the production of weather. TU Dublin. Dublin, IR. June 2022.
Thinking Landscape at a Planetary Scale with Alexandra Arenes and Albena Yaneva and Kim Foerster at MARG, Manchester School of Architecture. Manchester, UK. May 2022.
2021
Vulnerable Plants. Vulnerable Beings. MAAT. Lisbon, PT. November 2021.
Sky River: Politics of the Atmosphere. Matters of Activity. Disentangling Perspectives in Material Research. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, DE. October 2021.
Sky River: Politics of the Atmosphere. Atmospheres Lectures. New Centre. New York, US. September 2021.
Seven Questions. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Cambridge, US. September 2021.
Architectural Positions. Faculty of Architecture. TU Delft. Delft, NL. September 2021.
Entangled Studios Seminar. Advanced Architecture. GSAPP, Columbia. New York, US. July 2021.
Event moderator. Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse. HEAD and HEPA. Geneva, CH. May 2021.
Making the Public-Commons. Texas A&M University. Houston, US. April 2021. Masterclass: Learning with Landscapes. Bartlett School of Architecture and Built Environment. UCL, London. April 2021.
Landscape as Affective Image. Surrounded by a fog of virtual images. Research Seminar symposium with Matthew Gandy. EPFL. March 2021.
Atmosphere. Territory as a Project: Ocean, Land, Atmosphere. TU Delft. Delft, NL. March 2021.
2020
Alpine Samplings studio. School of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. Gestaltung 1. November, 2020.
2019
Publishing as a critical practice: A conversation with Sinthujan Varatharajah, Dubravka Sekulic and Elise Hunchuck. Launch of The Funambulist 25, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, September 2019.
2019 Spatial Justice: Investigative Methodologies roundtable with Brian Hioe, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Lachlan Kermode and Elise Hunchuck. Flaneur Festival – 20.5 hours at HKW.
2019
Chornobyl after Chernobyl: At the Edge of the Visible. NONUMENT Symposium, Centrum architektury a mesteskeho planovani. Prague, CZ. June 2019.
Toxic Atmospheres. Contour Biennale 9 in collaboration with kunstcentrum nona. Mechelen, BE. May 2019.
2018
Transgressions and Regressions: An incomplete atlas. POLIS Landscape and Urbanism Week, TU Delft, Delft, ND. October 2018.
On publishing and research as a political practice. Fieldwork Symposium: Political Architecture and Critical Sustainability, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen, DK. May 2018.
Landscape Performance Metrics for Design in the Public Realm: a Toronto Case Study. B.E.S.T. Lecture Series at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, CA. March 2018.
Between the land and the sea: on the coastlines of the Japanese archipelago. AA School of Architecture, Landscape Urbanism MSc/MArch, London, UK. February 2018.
2017
Cartographies for Cities Yet to Come: Points, Lines, and Fields. Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia in cooperation with the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, UK. Tallinn, ES. April 2017.
2016
For the City Yet to Come: Performance Case Studies. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto. Toronto, CA. September 2016.
PANEL 02: beyond diversity. Co-founder, Co- Organizer & Co-Moderator with Vanessa Abrams, Venessa Heddle and Max Yuristy. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, CA. April 2016.
2013
Women In Architecture: Toronto. Co-Organizer with Betsy Williamson, Shirley Blumberg, Jeannie Kim, and Jocelyn Squires. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, CA. March 2013.
Aerial Evidence in Zones of Conflict: a conversation and master class with Laura Kurgan and Caren Kaplan. Co-organized with Deborah Cowen, Mary Lou Lobsinger, and Charles Stankievech. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design. University of Toronto, CA. March 2013.
LECTURES, PEER-REVIEWED
2019
Author. “An Incomplete Atlas of Stones,” Telling the Stories of Science: History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Utrecht, NL. July 2019.
2018
Author. “At the Edges of the Visible,“ The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone: Thinking the Site On-site with Margret Grebowicz, Lindsey Freeman, and Adrian Ivakhiv. Out of Mind: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Toronto CA. November 2018.
2017
Co-author. Hunchuck, E., Jane Wol and Elise Shelley. “Landscape Performance Metrics for Design in the Public Realm: a Toronto Case Study” at the World Design Summit 2017. Montreal, CA. Fall 2017.
CURATING (A selection)
2025 Curator. Oceanic Refractions. 19th International Architecture Exhibition Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, IT.
2024–2025 Curator (festival: discourse, installation, film, workshops).
Theme: (near) near but – far
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2023–2024 Curator (festival: discourse).
Theme: you’re doing amazing, sweetie
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2022–2023 Curator (festival: discourse).
Theme: a model, a map, a fiction
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2021–2022 Curator (festival: discourse).
Theme: for refusal
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
ARTWORKS (A selection)
2025 Designer, curator. Oceanic Refractions. 19th International Architecture Exhibition Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, IT. Installation: immersive screen, olfactory effects for scentscape, haptic seating, designed soundscapes. Film, 14:00+ min.
2024 Invited Artist. Hunchuck, E. & M. Ferrari. “Sky River” in WET DREAMS, MAYRIT 2024. Madrid Biennial of Design and Architecture. Curator: Marina Otero Verzier. CENTRO. Madrid, Spain. Installation: 1:1 model of a Chinese cloud-seeding stove. Film, 20:00+ min.
2021 Invited Artist. Hunchuck, E. & M. Ferrari & C. Cheng. “Sky River” in The 13th Shanghai Biennale. Chief Curator: Andrés Jaque, Curators: Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Dr. You Mi. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
2020–2021 Invited Artist. Hunchuck, E. & M. Ferrari & C. Cheng. “Sky River” in Critical Zones: Horizons of a New Earth Policy. Curator: Bruno Latour, Peter Wiebel. Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, and OTHER AWARDS
2026
Coast Contemporary Curatorial Research Traveler. Coast Contemporary and Independent Curators International (ICI).
Research Fellow (Spatial). Akademie Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, DE.
2024
Individual Grantee (Research: tsunami stones). Chicago, US.
2024
Grant, team member (‘Organic-geochemical proxy for tracing recent and historical tsunamis in time and space’. Project number 390538253 - RE1361/32-1, SCHW750/22-1). Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation]. Bonn, DE.
2023
Collaborator (As You Enter Here, a collaboration with Monica Bonvicini). Finalist, winner: East Bayfront Artwork. Waterfront Toronto. Toronto, CA.
2022
Individual Grantee (Research: Sky River). Chicago, US.
2019–2020
Fellow-in-Residence. Stiftelsen Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation. Lofoten Islands, NO.
2017
Canadian Pavilion Shortlist. Biennale of Architecture 2018. Venice, Italy.
2017
Finalist. Maeder-York Fellowship. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Cambridge, US.
2016–2017
National Olmsted University Scholar. Landscape Architecture Foundation. Washington, DC, US.
2025 Curator. Oceanic Refractions. 19th International Architecture Exhibition Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, IT.
2024–2025 Curator (festival: discourse, installation, film, workshops).
Theme: (near) near but – far
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2023–2024 Curator (festival: discourse).
Theme: you’re doing amazing, sweetie
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2022–2023 Curator (festival: discourse).
Theme: a model, a map, a fiction
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2021–2022 Curator (festival: discourse).
Theme: for refusal
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
ARTWORKS (A selection)
2025 Designer, curator. Oceanic Refractions. 19th International Architecture Exhibition Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, IT. Installation: immersive screen, olfactory effects for scentscape, haptic seating, designed soundscapes. Film, 14:00+ min.
2024 Invited Artist. Hunchuck, E. & M. Ferrari. “Sky River” in WET DREAMS, MAYRIT 2024. Madrid Biennial of Design and Architecture. Curator: Marina Otero Verzier. CENTRO. Madrid, Spain. Installation: 1:1 model of a Chinese cloud-seeding stove. Film, 20:00+ min.
2021 Invited Artist. Hunchuck, E. & M. Ferrari & C. Cheng. “Sky River” in The 13th Shanghai Biennale. Chief Curator: Andrés Jaque, Curators: Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Dr. You Mi. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
2020–2021 Invited Artist. Hunchuck, E. & M. Ferrari & C. Cheng. “Sky River” in Critical Zones: Horizons of a New Earth Policy. Curator: Bruno Latour, Peter Wiebel. Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, and OTHER AWARDS
2026
Coast Contemporary Curatorial Research Traveler. Coast Contemporary and Independent Curators International (ICI).
Research Fellow (Spatial). Akademie Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, DE.
2024
Individual Grantee (Research: tsunami stones). Chicago, US.
2024
Grant, team member (‘Organic-geochemical proxy for tracing recent and historical tsunamis in time and space’. Project number 390538253 - RE1361/32-1, SCHW750/22-1). Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation]. Bonn, DE.
2023
Collaborator (As You Enter Here, a collaboration with Monica Bonvicini). Finalist, winner: East Bayfront Artwork. Waterfront Toronto. Toronto, CA.
2022
Individual Grantee (Research: Sky River). Chicago, US.
2019–2020
Fellow-in-Residence. Stiftelsen Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation. Lofoten Islands, NO.
2017
Canadian Pavilion Shortlist. Biennale of Architecture 2018. Venice, Italy.
2017
Finalist. Maeder-York Fellowship. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Cambridge, US.
2016–2017
National Olmsted University Scholar. Landscape Architecture Foundation. Washington, DC, US.