About Luisa Ji

 

Luisa Ji (M.ARCH) is a multi-disciplinary creative, designer, and strategist. She develops participatory works that enable collective sense-making with people on issues surrounding the technologies interwoven into the living environment and ecology. Living systems of ecological succession and perpetual change are foundational to how Luisa delivers experiences that invite people to inhabit digital or digitally augmented worlds with curiosity and wonder. She leverages ecological systems as useful metaphors when designing conditions for collaboration, cooperation, and the mending of relationships. Over the past eight years, she has worked with clients and collaborators to deliver projects ranging from exhibition production, digital engagement strategies, communications materials, and web design for social impact organizations and cultural producers in Canada and Internationally.

Past and current clients and collaborators include BEING Studio, The Bentway Toronto, the City of Guelph, CodeforCanada, Ferme Lanthorn, FromLater, the International Labour Organization, the National Association of Women and the Law, StreetArt Toronto, the University of Toronto Technoscience Research Unit, UKAI Projects, and more. Whether it is helping organizations adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic, communicating challenges in artists’ financial sustainability, creating an educational platform for feminist law literacy, storytelling for artists with disabilities, or imagining new interactions with urban public spaces, Luisa’s works support organizations, collectives, mutual-aid networks, and independent researchers directing efforts toward responding to the shifting landscape under widespread volatilities. Her innovative approaches to support artist-led climate response and environmental storytelling have been recognized by the Creative Climate Leadership program by Julie’s Bicycle and The Centre for the Sustainable Practice in the Arts.

 

Leadership, Research, and Workshops

Areas of Focus:

 

building creative ecosystems that sustain the arts and new forms of expression

Decentralized Arts Infrastructure—Imagining alternative systems for artistic collaboration.

Speculative Design & Worldbuilding—Creating immersive experiences that interrogate future possibilities.

Cultural Innovation—Designing new formats for engagement in arts and culture under climate volatilities.

Notable engagements: Speculative Futures Helsinki (2023 | Speculative design and urban imaginaries), Creative Climate Leadership (2022 | Sustainable creative practices), MUTEK Montreal (2023 | Multimodal AI agents and decentralized arts infrastructure)

 

Studio

Based in Canada, in collaboration with artists, designers, and cultural professionals worldwide, including the UK, South Korea, and Iceland

 

exploring wonder, pensiveness, and magic in real-world experiences

Creative Strategy—Uncertain times call for unconventional approaches to problem-solving, from decentralized artistic collaboration under volatility to leveraging speculative worldbuilding to drive urgent actions.

Spatial Activations & Installations—Designing immersive, research-driven environments for placekeeping and community responses through artistic methods of inquiry and artefacting.