JAM Kinship
is a studio based in Copenhagen, founded by Jeyeon Ban, Alberte Bille Demescko, and Martine Münster Spanger-Ries.
The name Kinship is inspired by Donna Haraway’s call to make kin, which proposes forms of relatedness that extend beyond human-centered frameworks.
We explore how entanglement reshapes our inhabitation, understanding architecture as a field where social, ecological, and material relations are intertwined.
Through design and research we investigate how everyday spaces can support shared habitats and sensorial relations across species.
JAM Kinship expands architecture’s role by embracing coexistence, and aesthetic experimentation within multispecies worlds.
"Staying with the trouble requires making oddkin;
that is, we require each
other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles.
We become-with each other or not at all.”
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Experimental Futures Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices (Durham London: Duke University Press, 2016).
Originally from South Korea, Jeyeon is an architect with a dual background in anthropology and architecture, transforming complex ideas into spatial interventions. Specifically interested in the topic of environmental injustice and housing inequality as an intersection of climate crisis and housing crisis.