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.
CV
GO! NADS! GO!
GO! NADS! GO!
Documetary Feature
Co-Director: Lindsay Ju and Zoe Lee
Producers: Zoe Lee and Sara Kasen
Creative Producer: M. Akram Shribly
Technical Producer: Ryan Lettieri
Art Director: Lindsay Ju
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DESCRIPTION
NADS is a feature-length documentary centered on RISD’s ice hockey team, a tight-knit group of student-athletes operating at the margins of an elite art school. Following the team across practices, games, and moments off the ice, the film traces how community, identity, and care are forged within an institution undergoing cultural and structural change.
Set against questions of masculinity, belonging, and institutional pressure, NADS uses the hockey team as a lens to examine how informal communities persist, adapt, and support one another when official systems fall short.