Mae-Ling Lokko

Mae-Ling Lokko (born 17 October 1987) be a Ghanaian-Filipino designer, academic den artist. She be best known for ein research, art den work for fungi, plants, agricultural waste den renewable biobased building materials top for relation to ecological health den social justice. Insyd ein artistic den design practice, she dey focus upon she dey investigate den dey prototype participatory models of production. Lokko be an assistant professor for Yale University's School of Architecture.

 Early life den education 
Na dem born Mae-ling Jovenes Lokko insyd Taif, Saudi Arabia, to a Ghanaian surgeon den Filipino nurse. She grow up insyd Oxford, Grenada, Malaysia, Philippines den insyd Ghana wer she attend boarding school.

Lokko study architecture den African insyd de New World politics for Tufts University, during wich she spend a year wey se dey study for de Bartlett School of Architecture. She plete ein master's den Ph.D. insyd architectural sciences for de Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology] (CASE), wen na ebe an academic-industrial alliance between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute den Skidmore, Owings and Merrill insyd New York City.
 Job 
Lokko be best known for ein academic research, artistic practice den architectural teaching around agricultural waste, fungi den plants wey dey advocate give de design den scaling of biobased global material value chains around generative justice goals. Ein research dey focus for de broad development wey dey match of biobased resources towards high-value material applications. She be de founder of AMBIS Technologies (2015-2018) den Willow Technologies (2017-present), both focus for de upcycling agricultural waste into affordable, low-carbon building materials den give water quality treatment applications. Insyd 2023, na Lokko be de co-author of a major United Nations Environment Programme, Global ABC den Yale Center for Ecosystems insyd Architecture global report “Building Materials and Climate: Constructing a New Future.”

 Teaching 
Lokko dey serve as an assistant professor for de Yale School of Architecture. Previously she serve as assistant professor den director of de Building Sciences program for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to Yale, Lokko teach for Cooper Union insyd New York City.

She dey live den dey work insyd New York City den Accra, Ghana.
 Awards den residencies 
Future by Design, British Council (2021)
Black Rock Residency (2019)
Hublot Design Prize Finalist (2019)
El Anatsui Tema Artist Residency (2020)
Folly Tree Arboretum Residency (2020)
SOM Foundation Research Prize (2019)
Atelier Luma Residency, Luma Foundation (2018)
Housing the Human Competition Winner (2018)
Rotch Foundation Travel Studio Grant (2015)
 Exhibitions 

 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024)
 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023)
 The Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm (2023)
 Serralves Foundation, Portugal (2022-2023)"The Art of Mushrooms". www.serralves.pt. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
 Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium (2021)
 Museum of the Future, Dubai (2022-2024)
 Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands (2022)
 Triennale Milano, Italy (2020)
 Somerset House, United Kingdom (2020)

 References 

Category:1987 births
Category:Human
Category:Ghanaians
Category:Ghanaian designers
Category:Ghanaian women artists
Category:Ghanaian people of Filipino descent
Category:At-Ta'if
Category:Tufts University alumni
Category:Alumni of de Bartlett
Category:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Category:Cooper Union faculty
Category:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Category:Yale School of Architecture faculty
Category:Ghanaian expatriates insyd de United States