Jae Rhim Lee

Jae Rhim Lee is a Research Fellow at MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology within the School of Architecture and Planning. An interdisciplinary artist and designer, her work bridges environmental systems, bioremediation, and human-centered design through projects like the MIT FEMA Trailer Project and Infinity Burial Project.

Her research explores unconventional relationships between the human body and environment through living units, wearables, and decomposition systems. Key methodologies include self-examination, transdisciplinary immersion, and DIY design, focusing on themes of death acceptance, toxin remediation, and sustainable resource cycles.

• 2009 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
• 2010 Institut fur Raumexperimente Grant
• 2011 MAK Schindler Scholarship
• 2011 TED Global Fellow
• TED Senior Fellow

As founder of Coeio, Inc. and board member of Creative Capital Foundation, Lee translates research into ventures like the Infinity Burial Suit ('Mushroom Death Suit'). Her work has been exhibited at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Somerset House London, and featured in National Geographic and Wired.