Elsa MH Mäki is a designer/writer/teacher in Brooklyn who comes from Finnish, Armenian, and Anishinaabe family. Her practice includes cartography, sculpture, immersive theater, and architectural design. Elsa’s drawing and writing have been featured in volumes including Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design (forthcoming), Architectures of Care(2024), Architecture of Migration (Siddiqi, 2023), and Non-Extractive Architecture (2021). She got degrees in architecture at Columbia University–where she received the Marcia Mead Design Award–and Harvard GSD. Elsa is an editor with Avery Review and has held design and teaching positions in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New York. She is Assistant Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia GSAPP.