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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.&#38;nbsp;Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at&#38;nbsp;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.&#38;nbsp;↗


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	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.&#38;nbsp;Forthcoming editorial titles include a new Radical Rituals publication, a&#38;nbsp;Scapegoat
Issue 14–15 (Scapegoat). Recent publications include&#38;nbsp;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&#38;nbsp;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.


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EDUCATION
2013–2016
Master of Landscape Architecture, MLAJohn 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. BAUniversity 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


2027–2028Co-editor. Arctic Commons series. Co-editor Bert De Jonghe. Danish Architectural Press. Forthcoming

2026
Co-editor. Radical Rituals: Romania.&#38;nbsp;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.

2023Editor. transmediale journal: on scale.transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE. (also published with incomplete attribution as part of:&#38;nbsp;A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale.&#38;nbsp;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–currentEnglish 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–currentEditorial board member. Scapegoat: Architecture &#124;
Landscape &#124; 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.&#38;nbsp;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.&#38;nbsp;
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&#38;amp;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 &#38;amp; 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
&#38;amp; Design, University of Toronto. Toronto, CA.
September 2016.

PANEL 02: beyond diversity. Co-founder, Co-
Organizer &#38;amp; Co-Moderator with Vanessa Abrams,
Venessa Heddle and Max Yuristy. Daniels Faculty
of Architecture, Landscape &#38;amp; 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 &#38;amp; 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 &#38;amp; Design.
University of Toronto, CA. March 2013.LECTURES, PEER-REVIEWED2019Author. “An Incomplete Atlas of Stones,” Telling
the Stories of Science: History of Science Society
Annual Meeting. Utrecht, NL. July 2019.2018Author. “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 2018.2017Co-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&#38;nbsp;(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 – fartransmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2023–2024 Curator (festival: discourse). Theme: you’re doing amazing, sweetietransmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.
2022–2023 Curator (festival: discourse). Theme: a model, a map, a fictiontransmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.

2021–2022 Curator (festival: discourse).
 Theme: for refusal
transmediale e.V., Berlin, DE.&#38;nbsp;


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. &#38;amp; 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. &#38;amp; M. Ferrari &#38;amp;
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. &#38;amp; M. Ferrari &#38;amp; 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
2026Coast Contemporary Curatorial Research Traveler.
Coast Contemporary and Independent Curators
International (ICI).Research Fellow (Spatial). Akademie Schloss
Solitude. Stuttgart, DE.2024Individual Grantee (Research: tsunami stones).
Chicago, US.2024Grant, 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.2023Collaborator (As You Enter Here, a collaboration
with Monica Bonvicini). Finalist, winner: East
Bayfront Artwork. Waterfront Toronto.
Toronto, CA.2022Individual Grantee (Research: Sky River). Chicago, US.2019–2020Fellow-in-Residence. Stiftelsen Maaretta Jaukkuri
Foundation. Lofoten Islands, NO.2017Canadian Pavilion Shortlist. Biennale of Architecture 2018. Venice, Italy. 2017Finalist. Maeder-York Fellowship. Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum. Cambridge, US.2016–2017National Olmsted University Scholar. Landscape
Architecture Foundation. Washington, DC, US.


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