김윤하 Yoonha Kim is an anthropologist exploring how people reimagine heritage to make other worlds possible. Her background in design led her to adopt multimodal approaches to anthropology, including film and curation.

Her doctoral research ‘Wearing Salim, Worlding Hanbok’ explored ecological sensibility and diversifying technological imagination through wearing and making Korean sartorial heritage. Her current project on 큰뒷부리도요 (bar-tailed godwits, Kūaka, Cugerpak) looks into Korean tidal flats as sites of transnational heritage, tracing how the winged species connect communities across continents, imagining new forms of kinship. Engaging with field-based methods and interdisciplinary collaboration, she explores how diverse beings attune to geomagnetic fields and sedimentary memory, approaching these as part of an expanded ecology of sensing. 

She is currently a postdoctoral 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.

Previously, she was a pre-doctoral researcher at Matters of Activity, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 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