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Junha is currently thinking about forms of architecture that challenge assumptions about use and appropriateness across time...
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Junha (Jun(h)a) is an architectural designer, artist, and educator from South Korea. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and a Master of Architecture from MIT. She is co-founder and partner of Bodies of Work (BoW), a design-research collaborative founded with Vincent Jackow, and is currently a Teaching Fellow and Lecturer at MIT Architecture.
Junha is currently thinking about how existing bodies—of buildings, materials, objects, and habits—can be reimagined through reuse, adaptation, and experimentation. She is particularly interested in everyday objects, surfaces, and spaces, and how their expected uses and meanings might evolve across time. Working between architecture, performance, and play, she questions assumptions of normalcy and appropriateness, as well as ingrained habits of comfort and our relationships to materials and labor. Through her work, she seeks to unsettle familiar ways of living and make space for new, heterogeneous practices of care and solidarity.
Outside of work, Junha enjoys doing yoga, ︎drawing on people's bodies︎, reading other people’s thoughts, and resting.