Ahzin (she/her) is a designer and a hoarder of various things (stories, pixelated images, souvenirs, recipes, manuals, textures, etc.). Her past homes were in Daegu (Korea), Roseville (MN), San Jose (CA), and NYC (NY). She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cooper Union, and she is in the midst of collecting more things through SMArchS AD program at MIT.

Her work explores putting porous boundaries between things at various scales and materiality. She is currently exploring sticky and stinky themes of comfort, air conditionoing, and sweat while working on a collaborative world building project, temporarily titled “surreal suburb” through a design collective, Unihoro Supply.    

She is currently interested in digital/physical interaces, autonomous vehicles, and the future of digital infrastructures.  



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Pinning
  • IRL Google Pins
  • Site: (##,##)
  • Project timeline: 2022-2050
  • Authors: Ahzin Nam + Annabella Chen + Sanjana Lahiri

With digital map services, we constantly gavitate toward digital red pins on our phone screens. Closing the gap between the pin on a flattened plan and the streets that we walk on, Pinning is a project to create interactive 3d pins that allow the user to insert a new pin on a map by inflating a pin on a new location while allowing the “digital pins” to become a part of the physical world that we occupy.