hi, my name is christin hu (they/them)
I’m a nonbinary designer, educator, and organizer trained in landscape architecture and architecture. I was born and am currently based in Lenapehoking (New York City, NY). Through accessible workshops for collaborative design and playful liberation-based learning, I help others build genuine relationships with one another and our shared environments.
I also co-organize within the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. My practices of urban farming, martial arts, and online community facilitation are grounded in Chinglish histories, plant care, and an abundance of tasty ancestral foods.
Right now, I teach at Columbia GSAPP and Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture. I have previously taught at The City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture and Cornell University College of Agricultural Sciences.
If you’d like to collaborate on a design of a game, curriculum, publication, landscape or building – or if you’d just like to say “hello,” please contact me at upinthenimbus[at]gmail.com
If you would like to hire me for writing tutoring or technical skills training services please fill out the form here.
Finally, please support my work in creating cooperative games at nimbusbud.
complete CV/Résumé, References, and additional Work Samples available upon request.
people i look up to
Demita Frazier is an “unrepentant life long Black feminist.” Since her childhood she has been a passionate activist, thinker, writer, teacher, cook, and gardener, who is dedicated to fighting against the culture of oppression. I had the wonderful pleasure of meeting and dining with Demita as a part of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s International [Working] Women’s Week, and was immediately struck by her generosity and her truth. Check out her website here and the work of the Combahee River Collective!
Teresa Galí-Izard is a respected landscape architect from Barcelona with a unique sensitivity to plants and other non-human beings – all of who collaboratively shape the ecologies and cultural practices that make up our shared landscapes. I had the incredible experience of working as her TA alongside being a student in her studio at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). I even had the opportunity to co-edit/design the studio report Regenerative Empathy which was published by the GSD and presented at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France in May 2019. I am truly grateful for her sharing her knowledge, perspective, and generosity. Check out her landscape practice here.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a writer, mother, botanist, professor, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Anishinaabe descent. She wrote Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass, alongside many papers on restoration ecology, and is interested in restoring not just the environment around us, but also our relationship to the land through reciprocity. With a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF and MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, she works to introduce traditional ecological knowledge to the field of science while respecting and protecting indigenous communities. Check out her webpage here. I hope I can take one of her classes, particularly Field Ethnobotany, and meet her one day!
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