김윤하 Yoonha Kim is an anthropologist who is interested in exploring how local technics and heritage relates to alternative ways of worlding. She is currently a researcher at inherit. heritage in transformation, a new Centre for Advanced Study based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is also an associate member at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity.

Her background as a designer and her graduate studies in visual and media anthropology led her to deploy a range of multimodal forms of anthropology, including filmmaking and immersive fabulation workshops (VR,AR). She has co-curated the Stretching Materialities exhibition in Berlin (2021-2022) and co-organized the Stretching Senses School, both of which explore alternative modes of thinking about technology, materials and ecological sensibility. 

Her interests include: interdisciplinary research, sensory anthropology, environmental imaginaries, ideas of tradition, transformation of heritage, Science and Technology, Design and Anthropology, Environmental Studies, cosmotechnics, everyday life, ai and creativity, experimental ethnography, and intercultural dialogue.

Previously, she studied Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin (MA), Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins (Grad.Dip) in London and Samsung Art and Design Institute in Seoul. Since 2017, she has been part of Wearing Pixels, a collective of digital clothes makers.

Berlin / Seoul     
yoon.ha.kim@hu-berlin.de
 
Yoonha is pronounced : Yoon-Ha or You-Na