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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ENTANGLED VALUE
ENTANGLED VALUE
Video Essay
Director & Producer: Zoe Lee
Motion Graphics: Ryan Lettieri
In Collaboration With: Emily Harris, Dark Matter Labs
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For Dark Matter Labs, I directed, produced, and animated a video essay exploring Entangled Value, a core principle underlying the organization’s work on alternative economic and governance systems.
The project visualizes how value emerges through relationships, interdependence, and shared systems, transforming a complex theoretical framework into a clear, publicly accessible artifact designed for broad dissemination beyond academic and policy audiences.