Yisi is an artist, designer, and landscape architect with a decade of practice at the intersection of ecology, design and built environment. Her work spans a range of scales and geographies, from a rehabilitation park designed for people with disabilities in the heart of a city, to the first boarding school for girls in Afghanistan, to a master plan revitalizing an abandoned airport into a new sustainable community. Her research has investigated the ecological impact of fracking across the United States and explored how vacant land can become an economic catalyst for underserved communities in Boston.

In recent years, Yisi has shifted her focus toward the digital frontier, exploring how technology can deepen the relationship between people and the physical environment. Her projects include transforming intangible data from the nature into interactive art, deploying AR and VR to help communities imagine and co-create their future public spaces, and creating virtual environments that guide communities to build their own gardens

When she's not “reshaping” the landscape, Yisi is a dedicated collage artist, modern art enthusiast, and nature lover who finds equal inspiration in a gallery and on a trail. She draws energy from moving between creative identities.

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