Kimberly Tate
Kimberly Tate in a Bamboo sculpture
(she/they) is an architectural designer, embodied design researcher–practitioner, and culture builder whose work bridges Leyte, Philippines and Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder of Bambulawan, a bamboo architectural craft and design-build studio rooted in Burauen, Leyte, and the creator of DANCITECTURE, a spatial ritual that uses contemplative somatic inquiry within improvised tape labyrinths to honor ancestors, transmute grief, and restore joy.
As a mother, community builder, artist, storyteller, capoeirista and student of Filipino martial arts, Kimberly approaches design as an embodied social and cultural practice grounded in our responsibility as stakeholders in the worlds we shape and inherit.
Kimberly is faculty at Parsons School of Design, a design educator with the AIANY Center for Architecture, and created the Embodied Design Collaboratory as Designer in Residence with the SVA Design for Social Innovation program.
Her work invites us to move, sense, imagine, and build from the intelligence of our bodies and lineages while co-dreaming futures that build balance and belonging between homeland and diaspora.
Jacob Walse-Dominguez (he/they) is a Tagalog-Kapampangan, Visayan, Sundanese, Dutch, and Chinese-heritaged queer traditional artist whose work centers the martial and dance lineages of Maritime Southeast Asia. Their core training is rooted in Philippine Kuntau–Silat traditions from Sama–Tausug lineages, alongside Melayu-Sabah forms, developed through research with culture-bearers across Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga, Jolo, and Manila. This foundation is complemented by sustained study of Pencak Silat in West Java within the Mande Muda and Cimande traditions as well as the diasporic lineage of Gerakan Suci. Jacob’s movements integrates Indic–Austronesian classical vocabularies, indigenous Philippine ritual motion, rhythm, breath, and ancestral trance, bridging martial practice, performance, and diasporic cultural practice translated to modern-day complexities.