Elsa MH Mäki is a designer/teacher/writer in Brooklyn who comes from Finnish, Armenian, and Anishinaabek family. Her practice includes cartography, model-making, immersive theater, and architectural design. Elsa's drawing and writing have been featured in the Avery Review, The Funambulist, Disc Journal, and volumes including Non-Extractive Architecture (2021), Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Siddiqi, 2023), Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (2024), and Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design (2024). She has degrees in architecture from 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.