Junha Hwang
Junha (Jun(h)a) is a Teaching Fellow & Lecturer at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and a Master of Architecture from MIT. She is co-founder and partner of Bodies of Work (BoW), a design-research collaborative founded with Vincent Jackow, based in Cambridge, MA.
Junha is currently thinking about how existing bodies—of buildings, materials, objects, and habits—can be reimagined through reuse and adaptation. She is particularly interested in everyday objects, surfaces, and spaces, and how their expected uses and meanings might evolve across time. Working between architecture, performance, and play, she questions assumptions of normalcy and appropriateness, as well as ingrained habits of comfort and our relationships to materials and labor. Through her work, she seeks to unsettle familiar ways of living and make space for new, heterogeneous practices of care and solidarity.
Outside of school, Junha enjoys doing yoga, drawing on people's bodies, and resting.
[What Would Wood? A Worker’s Cooperative made from underutilized wild timber from forests in the Tahoe region]
[thinking about ways to make running more purposeful and low-tech; what would it mean for building components to become mobile?]
[Board game; Reconstructing historical narratives and theories to reimagine alternative futures for historical artifacts and monuments]
In collaboration with Vincent Jackow
[Can we use solar drying on roofs to extend the shelf-life of “fresh” fish?]
(Instructors: Cristina Parreno, Jaffer Kolb, Maria Rius Ruiz, Franca Sonntag)
[Rigid, unyielding, straight angles: the straight theater chair. What would it mean for the theater chair to be queer?]
[A container for collection, a space for projection, and a center for connection]
[Two hugging cones in one hairy sphere]
