ZOE MIYAKO LEE
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Zoe Lee is a designer, entreprenuer, researcher, and filmmaker based in the United States. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she co-founded BEAM, a research-led creative studio and public imagination engine for people & planet.
She is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s design, culture, and tech incubator, in the Year 12 Creative Science cohort.
Her work focuses on how climate technologies and interventions operate once they move into real places—shaped by ecological conditions, governance, culture, and lived relationships to land and water. Her practice blends research, design, and storytelling to make complex socio-ecological systems legible and negotiable.
Her work has been published and presented internationally, and has appeared in Vox, MIT Technology Review, ArtNews, The Today Show, O! Magazine, Stereo Saints, and Barley Field Magazine.
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EATING THE WHOLE FISH
EATING THE WHOLE FISH
Publication
Direction & Writing: Annie Chen & Zoe Lee
Graphic Design & Creative Direction: Kayla Feng
Partners: Eating with the Ecosystem
Interviews: Ben Sukle and Sky Kim, Jason Jarvis, Dave Bethoney, Stu Meltzer, Sherry Pocknett, and David Standridge
Copy Edits: Jessa Mellea & Christine Lee
Funders: Interlace Fund, Playbook HQ
DESCRIPTION
Rhode Island exports 95% of the fish it catches and imports 90% of what it eats. Many local species are abundant and nutritious but remain underused because they’re small, bony, and unfamiliar — a cultural gap that leaves local food disconnected from local tables.Eating the Whole Fish is a 200-page cookbook and field guide that teaches Rhode Islanders how to cook and enjoy their overlooked catch.
With recipes, interviews, how-to guides, and over a hundred illustrations, it is both a practical manual and a cultural resource — inviting people to build confidence, curiosity, and connection around local seafood.
Pre-orders for Eating the Whole Fish open this September, with the full release in November 2026. Launch events will take place in Providence and NYC, in partnership with NEW INC, the New Museum’s art and culture incubator.