Joanne Cheung 张涓 is an artist and designer. With a background in architecture and urban planning, she uses cities as a lens for thinking about and designing for systems change. She is an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She formerly served as a Director at the global design and innovation firm IDEO, where she led research, strategy, and program design in partnership with mission-driven organizations (Project
Drawdown, Earthjustice, Conservation International) and philanthropies (Knight Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).
In her ongoing effort to amplify the public impact of science and policy through art and design, she
spearheaded creative collaborations with research institutions including the Icelandic Glaciological
Society, Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences Visualization Lab, Harvard Office of
Sustainability, Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and Dartmouth
Life Sciences Center. She has been a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the American Association of University Women and an Artist-in-Residence at the Icelandic Association of Visual Artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in Wallpaper, Wired, and the New York Times.
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Affiliations
Lecturer, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Affiliate, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Fellow, Clean Energy Leadership Institute.
Member, Law & Society Association, Inclusive Capital Collective, Zebras Unite, Design Justice Network.
Formerly: IDEO, RadicalxChange, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, The Jewish Museum, Eyebeam, Performa Biennial.
Teaching
“Upstreaming Health”, cross-listed with the Program in Human Biology and School of Sustainability.
“Designing Futures”, an MBA course on systems change strategy.
Writing
Public Interest, co-authored with Anne Washington, in Keywords on the Datafied State, Data & Society Research Institute (forthcoming).
Water and Architecture in the Anthropocene, in Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide, Wetlands Books.
Real Estate Politik: Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks, Journal of Social Computing.
Policy Prototyping for the Future of Work, Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
First Mile Health, IDEO Journal.
Speaking
Annual Meeting on Law and Society, 2023.
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, 2023.
Global Meeting on Law and Society, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, 2022.
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 2022.
Anthropocene Campus Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2021.
Novartis Biome Summit, 2021.
Interface Women’s Summit, 2021.
Data Governance Design Conference, Duke Center on Law & Technology, 2019.
SocialxDesign, Harvard Business School, 2019.
Honoring All Expertise: Social Responsibility and Ethics in Tech, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 2018.
Role/Play: Collaborative Creativity, National Academy of Sciences, 2018.
ArtTechPsyche III, Digital Arts & Humanities at Harvard University, 2017.
The Future of Urban Innovations, Harvard Reischauer Institute, 2016.
Fukuoka Next: Urban Innovation Forum, Fukuoka Mayor’s Office & Kyushu University, 2016.
Organizing
From Emergency to Prevention: Protecting Journalists from Online Abuse, Institute for Rebooting Social Media, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society & PEN America, 2022.
The Technology Future We Want: Imagining Positive Futures for Social Media, Institute for Rebooting Social Media, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2021.
Social Media as a Crisis Discipline, Institute for Rebooting Social Media, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2021.
HarvardxDesign Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2018.Learning
M.Arch, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
BA, Dartmouth College.
International Baccalaureate, Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
BA, Dartmouth College.
International Baccalaureate, Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.
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