Mae-ling聽Lokko聽is an Assistant Professor at Yale University鈥檚 School of Architecture and Yale鈥檚 Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA). She is an architectural scientist, designer and educator from Ghana and the Philippines whose work focuses on the upcycling of agrowaste and聽biopolymer materials.聽 Her research integrates a broad range of technical, environmental, social and cultural criteria to evolve contemporary material-value systems and accelerate business models for upcycling between the Global North and South.聽Lokko聽is the founder of Willow Technologies, Ltd. focused on the research, design and development of聽biobased building materials.聽聽Lokko聽was the Director for the Building Sciences Program and Assistant Professor at Rensselaer鈥檚 School of Architecture from 2018-2021.聽Lokko鈥檚 recent projects have been exhibited globally including the Museum of Modern Art, New York;聽聽Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands;聽Museum of the Future, Dubai; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium; Somerset House; London and Triennale Milano, Italy.聽聽Lokko聽holds a Ph.D. and Masters of Science in Architectural Science from the Center of Architecture, Science and Ecology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and B.A from Tufts University.
