Mae-ling Lokko is an architectural scientist, designer, and educator from Ghana and the Philippines, who works with agricultural waste and bio-based materials. Combining art, architecture, material science, engineering, and education, her activism-driven practice aims to bring “generative justice” to dominant material cultures. She uses her artistic and design work to deconstruct historical narratives and ongoing practices of extraction, developing alternative material vocabularies and participatory models of production.

Mae-ling is an assistant professor at the Yale University’s School of Architecture. Her research at Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture focuses on ecological design, integrated material life cycle design, and the broad development and evaluation of biobased materials. She has previously taught at Cooper Union in New York, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, USA, where she served as the director of the Building Sciences Program as well as assistant professor at the School of Architecture and the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE).