EVA GILDEA
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Artist · Researcher · Designer
Introduction · Tohoku University · ISDM Lab · 2026

CONTENTS

01 BACKGROUND 02 CONTEXT 03 ART, RESEARCH & TOOLS 04 CURRENT WORK 05 FUTURE

01 · BACKGROUND

EDUCATION

Harvard College  Environmental Policy & Design Harvard Graduate School of Design  Landscape Architecture

EXPERIENCE

Conservation Biology & Botanic Gardens  Polly Hill Arboretum Design Build & Carpentry  South Mountain Landscape Design  MVVA & One Tree Good Day

02 · CONTEXT

DISASTER RESEARCH COMPLEXITY SCIENCE APPLIED DESIGN ART HARVARD GSD HARVARD VISUALIZATION LAB HARVARD DEPT. EARTH & PLANETARY SCI. ONE TREE GOOD DAY REDFISH GROUP

03 · ART, RESEARCH & TOOLS

ART PRACTICE

03 · DESIGN RESEARCH

DESIGN RESEARCH

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Storyboard Tool
Paintings
Charlestown Watershed ABM
Hood — BHCC Simulation

03 · ART, RESEARCH & TOOLS

APPLIED DISASTER WORK

12 Paradise Camp Fire
Simtable — Realtime.Earth
Reef — Live Geo Camera
GeoCamera + CameraMap
DESIGN RESILIENCE
JAPAN 2026
Miyajima  —  Director of Miyajima Botanic Garden, Hiroshima University
Hiroshima  —  documentation of reconstruction and memorials
Kyoto  —  rivers and population flow dynamics
Sendai  —  urban coastline and disaster history, current management and ecological regrowth
Tokyo  —  Chiba coastline  ·  NACT  ·  Museum of Western Art
Timelapse at tidal cycles — half-day, daily
Cyanotype prints — salinity / sediment
Specimen collection — shell gradients, crystallography
Real-time GPS photo mapping (Reef)
What does the tide carry in, carry out —
and how does that accumulate into structure?
Japan 2026 — Ramsar Sites
data synthesis data synthesis risk scenarios recovery evidence field record COASTAL SYSTEM OBSERVATION / MONITORING ANALYSIS / MODELLING INTERVENTION / ADAPTATION RESILIENCE OUTCOMES TOHOKU 2011 disaster event / site BUILT LANDSCAPE / POLICY

05 · FUTURE

HARVARD TOHOKU DRR DESIGN ENGINEERING IMPLEMENTATION