Assistant Professor
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestr
Syracuse, New York
Jean Yang is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at SUNY ESF, where she leads the Center for Microbial Landscapes. Her work develops participatory visual methods—including sticker-based landscape mapping—that make community knowledge legible across cultural and linguistic barriers. Jean's research examines environmental identity performance across Chinese American immigration cohorts, bridging traditional ecological knowledge and contemporary landscape practice. She teaches justice-oriented design studios and distributed pedagogy, centering care as design intelligence. Jean holds degrees from Cornell University, UCLA, and the University of Southern California. Her co-edited volume Activism in Design Education examines how design pedagogy can center equity and accountability.
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FRI-D04: Publics, Projects, Power: engagement Techniques for Real-world Constraints
Friday, September 18, 2026
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT