Elise Misao Hunchuck (b. Toronto, CA) is a spatial researcher, editor, curator, writer, and educator. Based in Berlin, her transdisciplinary practice brings together architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and media studies to research sites in Canada, Japan, China, and Ukraine. She documents, studies, and archives the co-constitutive relationships between plants, animals, and minerals by employing text, images, and cartographies.
Her writing and editorial works have been published in The Funambulist, Flash Art, Fotograf, The Architectural Review, MIT Press, Onassis Foundation, Spector Books, and Sternberg Press. Most recently, she coedited Electric Brine (Archive Books, 2021). Photography Off the Scale (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Operational Images (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Forthcoming editorial titles in 2024 include Scapegoat Issue 14–15: Critical Zones (Scapegoat), The AI Anarchies School (Akademie der Künste, Berlin), Post Arctic (Actar), Media+Environment journal, Radical Rituals Part II (Punch Books), and Living Surfaces (MIT Press). Forthcoming written contributions for 2024 are with Damaged Goods, The Architectural Review, Duke University Press, Whitechapel London and MIT Press, Bloomsbury, and the Minnesota University Press series Art after Nature on the work and legacy of Robert Smithson.
Elise is currently a visiting adjunct 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–current). She is an editorial board member for the journal Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy and since 2021 has been the editor and festival discourse curator for transmediale.