Joanne Cheung 张涓 is an artist, designer, and organizer. Her name—涓/stream—comes from an ancient poem describing mountain streams flowing towards the ocean. Her homeland is the once abundant wetlands of the Jianghan, an alluvial plain formed by the meeting of two rivers, the Yangzi and its largest tributary, the Han. Through her art practice, she carries forward the care and creativity of her mother, grandmother, and ancestral lineage of traditional medicine practitioners. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Icelandic Association of Visual Artists and a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Her work has been commissioned by Design Miami, Icelandic Glaciological Society, and the Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences Visualization Lab, and featured in Wallpaper, Wired, and the New York Times. She teaches systems design at the Stanford d.school and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, organizes with Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action, and serves on the Board of Richmond LAND. She is currently working on an oral history book on community land tenure and climate action.
Projects, Glossary, CV ︎ j@joannekcheung.com ︎ @joannekcheung
Writing
Public Interest, co-authored with Anne Washington, in Keywords of the Datafied State, Data & Society Research Institute.
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.
Speaking
Annual Meeting on Law and Society, Puerto Rico, 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.
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.
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