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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STATEMENT OF SHARED STEWARDSHIP
The Spirit of Asilomar: The Future of Biotechnology
Co-Directors: Annie Chen & Zoe Lee [BEAM]
Partners: David S. Kong
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As a Next Generation Leader at Asilomar, I contributed to shaping the contemporary interpretation of the Spirit of Asilomar through facilitation, public scholarship, and cultural documentation. I designed and led a participatory workshop that brought together scientists, technologists, artists, and community leaders to collectively articulate shared responsibilities around emerging technologies and ecological futures.
In addition to facilitation, I produced a video essay that functions as both a public archive and broadcast artifact, translating the convening’s ideas into an accessible, durable form. This work culminated in the creation of a Statement of Shared Stewardship—a collective declaration that reframes technological progress as a relational practice grounded in care, accountability, and long-term ecological responsibility.