Jae Shin

Jae Shin serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Stuart Weitzman School of Design and is a partner at HECTOR, an urban design, planning, and civic arts practice. Her work critically examines power structures in built environments through socially engaged design projects.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University.

Shin's research integrates landscape architecture with civic activism, focusing on public housing transformation, eco-feminist memorials, and youth-centered urban development. Her practice treats art institutions as laboratories for social inquiry, creating designs that challenge systemic inequities in spatial politics and community representation.

Her significant recognitions include:

• National Planning Award for Detroit's youth-centric west side development plan
• Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship at New York City Housing Authority
• MacDowell Fellowship for artistic residency

Shin has led graduate design studios at Cornell University and Yale University while facilitating public housing preservation strategies at NYCHA. Her exhibitions at MoMA, Queens Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts demonstrate cross-institutional impact, with additional project support from the Graham Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.