Recently...
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
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
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