Kira Bre Clingen

Kira Bre Clingen is a landscape architect and researcher. Trained as an ecologist, Kira's work uses place-based scenario planning as a method for community-engaged climate adaptation design. Before coming to the University of Cambridge she was a Lecturer and the 2023-2025 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she taught core studios and a seminar titled Place-Based Scenario Planning for the Climate Emergency. She is co-founder of the climate design research collaborative, Apocatopia, and previously led regional and watershed-scale climate adaptation projects at the Harvard University Office for Urbanization. Kira holds MLA and MDes degrees from Harvard and a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and B.A. in Environmental Policy Studies and Asian Studies from Rice University.

Her OOC AHRC DTP studentship is a Collaborative Doctoral Award working in partnership with Arup, aimed at communicating flood risk in the Fens region of the United Kingdom, supervised by Dr. Emily So and Juliet Mian.