Janette Kim | Coral Courts Lecture
Janette Kim will deliver the 2025 Coral Courts Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Kim is founding principal of All of the Above and co-director of the Urban Works Agency at the California College of the Arts Her practice — which ranges from buildings, books and board games to community and municipal partnerships — highlights the intersections of ecology, social equity and the built environment.
About Janette Kim
Janette Kim is associate professor at California College of the Arts, where she co-directs the Urban Works Agency, and founding principal of design firm All of the Above. Kim’s work focuses on the politics of ecology. She works in partnership with community-based organizations and municipal agencies to realize a more equitable redistribution of land and resources. Janette’s projects include the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge; the In It Together and Bartertown board games; The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform (Princeton Architectural Press 2015, with Erik Carver); the Safari audio tours on urban ecology (with Kate Orff and MTWTF); a hotel in Sichuan, China; the Pinterest headquarters (with First Office); and the National AIDS Memorial (with Chloe Town). Kim is currently working on her second book, which illustrates how activists and architects can work together to co-opt property law and foster a just and ecologically vibrant built environment
Equity Land Trusts
