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Kira Clingen is the Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She specializes in place-based scenario planning and visualizing climate futures through speculative fiction. Affiliated with the Office for Urbanization, she led the multi-year 'Compound Vulnerabilities: The Case of Cape Ann' project addressing coastal climate adaptation in Massachusetts. Born and raised on the Gulf of Maine, her work bridges ecological science and design practice.
- B.S. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Rice University
- B.A. Environmental Policy Studies, Rice University
Her research emphasizes speculative futures in climate resilience, with publications in Yale Paprika!, LUNCH Journal, and The Plan Journal. As co-founder of design collective APOCATOPIA, she explores post-apocalyptic urbanism. Awards include the Aspen Institute Climate Future Leader (2023) and Watson Fellowship (2016).
Recent courses include 'Place-Based Scenario Planning for the Climate Emergency' (Spring 2025). Her work combines design fiction with empirical research to reimagine urban systems under climate stress.
