Apocatopia is a collaborative, climate focused design research practice.
April 2025
Kira delivers the 2025 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow lecture titled
"Place-Based Scenario Planning for the Climate Emergency" in the Frances
Loeb Library at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in
Cambridge, MA
Kira is a panelist and the work
of her students in Place-Based Scenario Planning is shared at the
Territorial Design Roundtable and Student Exhibition workshop at the
MIT's Morningside Design Academy in Cambridge, MA alongside Min Yeo,
Ettore Santi, Lizzie Yarina, and moderated by Chen Chu. https://mad.mit.edu/events/territorial-design
Kira
delivers an invited guest lecture titled, "The Coastline Adaptation
Paradox" in Islands We Eat, taught by Montserrat Bonvehi-Rosich at
Washington University in St. Louis as part of the Sam Fox Virtual
Lecture Series
March 2025
Kira's seminar, VIS 2466 Place-Based Scenario Planning is awarded an
Honorable Achievement for Interdisciplinary Climate Change Curriculum in
Landscape Architecture from the inaugural Tulane Prize for Climate
Change Curriculum in the Built Environment.
Kira delivers a guest lecture on place-based scenario planning in DES
3396 Thinking Landscape, Making Cities, taught by Alexander Wall at the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA.
Kira delivers an invited guest lecture titled, "Place-Based Scenario
Planning: The Case of Long Beach," in CLIMATE CASE: Subtropical Urbanism
taught by Chris Reed at the Harvard University Graduate School of
Design, Cambridge, MA
Kira delivers an invited guest lecture titled, "The Coastline Adaptation Paradox" in LARC2140 taught by Sonia Ralston at Northeastern University in Boston, MA
February 2025
Kira leads a public workshop on place-based scenario
planning titled "Long Beach Is...? Long Beach Could Be...?" in
collaboration with TownGreen at the Public Library in Rockport,
Massachusetts
January 2025
Kira presents a conference session, "Place-Based Scenario
Planning: Adapting to Coastal Climate Change" at the Lincoln Institute
for Land Use Policy's Consortium for Scenario Planning Conference in
Deerfield Beach, Florida
Kira teaches her project-based seminar VIS 2466 Place-based Scenario
Planning for the Climate Emergency at the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design
November 2024
Kira shares a guest lecture titled,
“The Coastline Decision Paradox,” in LDAR 226G-01 - LANDSCAPE RESEARCH,
THEORY AND DESIGN, taught by Elaine Stokes at the Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, RI
Kira delivers an invited guest lecture titled,
"Place-Based Scenario Planning: Decision Making for Climate Adaptation
through Design," at the University of Cincinnati College of Design,
Architecture, Art, and Planning, organized by Assistant Professor Sang
Cho
July 2024
Kira is part of the Entangled
Futures group show with the Forest for the Trees Collective at the
Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island in New York, NY
June 2024
Kira shares an artist talk titled, “Climate Landscape
Literacy” at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, New York
Kira serves as the lead Landscape Architecture faculty for the Design
Discovery Virtual program at the Harvard University Graduate School of
Design in Cambridge, MA.
March 2024
Kira gives an invited talk
and workshop titled "Climate Tour," with Cyrielle Noel and Nidhi
Shashidhara at the Aspen Institute Climate Fellows Summit in Miami,
Florida
January 2024
Kira's work with Edyth Jostol on Cryptomeria cultivation in Japan is included in the Forest /Futures group exhibition curated by Anita Berrizbeitia in the Druker Design
Gallery at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,
MA
November 2023
Kira, Nidhi Shashidhara and Cyrielle Noel are invited to present, "Preservation
through the Lens of Climate Change,” at the National Trust for Historic
Preservation Past Forward Conference in Washington, D.C.
October 2023
Kira is the chair of the Student-Led Session "What is Left Behind?" as part of the Setting the Course: Future Core Studio Pedagogies in Landscape Architecture symposium organized by Rosalea Monacella at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts
February
2023
Kira is awarded the 2023-2025 Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching
Fellowship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
January 2022
Mark and Kira co-teach Architecture III: Core III Studio – APOCATOPIA:
An Oceanographic Research Institute for the End of the World As We Know
It at the Boston Architectural College in Boston, Massachusetts
August 2021
Kira is awarded a Planet Reimagined New Futures Fellowship and publishes a research report titled, “Toward a Global Framework for Public Coastal Access” with Rai Saad Khan, Mercy Adihambo, Vanessa Cordova and Keoni Rodriguez