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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OTHER PROJECTS [FILM, VIDEO & PHOTO]
NADS: THE DOCUMENTARY
Co-Director & Producer, Feature Documentary
NADS is a feature-length documentary about RISD’s ice hockey team, tracing a group of student-athletes navigating identity, community, and belonging within a rapidly changing institution. Set against the backdrop of college sports and art school culture, the film examines how informal communities form, endure, and adapt under pressure.
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SPIRIT OF ASILOMAR
Co-Director & Producer, Video Essay
Selected as a Next Generation Leader at Asilomar, where I led a participatory workshop, co-developed a Statement of Shared Stewardship, and produced a video essay as a public-facing archival artifact and broadcast.
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ENTANGLED VALUE
Director & Producer, Video Essay
Directed, produced, and animated a video essay for Dark Matter Labs visualizing Entangled Value, translating a core organizational principle into a publicly accessible visual narrative.
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ALCHEMY
Co-Director & Producer, Music Video
Co-directed, wrote, and produced a music video for Ojahara, built around a narrative of chase, longing, and absence. Shot in Providence, RI over a 24-hour production window.
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Eating the Whole Fish
Co-Director & Producer, Promotional Video
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SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS
Gallery & Archive
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