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Kimberly Tate (she/they/we) is a multidisciplinary embodied truth seeker, teacher, healing arts practitioner, organizer and mother based in Flatbush, Brooklyn (unceded Canarsie Lenape land). She is the granddaughter of Alfred & Josefina Pacho Tate and Felipe & Rosario Alibadbad Serrano from the Eastern Visayas of the Philippines. 

Trained as an architect (Parsons M.Arch 2011) her work outside the university has been invested in healing and decolonizing among her Black and Asian diaspora community through restorative, body-based contemplative and performative practices, public space installations and community gatherings - most notably DANCITECTURE. Between disciplinary boundaries, Kimberly lives and practices, teaches, mothers and performs - to dream, to heal, to make space for grief and joy, to build kinship and belonging, to honor and restore our embodied inheritance and to recover agency in spheres we inhabit and design.

She has performed and presented internationally and at The Highline, Sheila Aronson Galleries at the New School, Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival, Common Field Convening, Brooklyn Wildlife Festival, Women to the Front and Insitu Site-Specific Dance Festival. She has performed with Akim Funk Buddha, Andrew Suseno of Parcon Resilience, Walang Hiya NYC, Jill Sigman Thinkdance, among others.  

In addition to teaching in the Parsons First Year, BFA and MFA Interior Design programs, she is founder of Studio Galaxxxia, a healing arts, performance and design consultancy. She is also a design educator at the AIANY Center for Architecture and a recipient of a Tischman Environmental Design Center Faculty grant and a Create Change Fellowship with The Laundromat Project.

Degrees Held

M. Arch Parsons School of Design, The New School

BA Art, University of Missouri - Columbia 

Recent Publications

"Parcon in the Park," written in collaboration with Andrew Suseno. Ground: Landscape Architect Quarterly, Issue 24, SOMATICS, by the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, Summer 2018

"Feeling into Deep Ancestry: Holding my Child While the Earth is Holding Me," Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.15, Center for Babaylan Studies podcast, 6 March 2022

Performances and Appearances

In process: Tandang Sora Project with Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts, part the Monument Lab Re:Generation project

DANCITECTURE #16: Labyrinth for Embodied Dreaming, Parkside Plaza, Brooklyn (2019)

Village Matriarchs Sanctuary of Rest and Dreaming, Common Field Convening (2021)

Research Interests

Embodied Design, Somatics, Architecture, Interiority, Bamboo Construction, Urban Movement, Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Decolonization, Bioregional Heritage, Earth-based traditional practices, Installation, Social Practice, Public Art and Performance, Experiential Design, Healing Arts, BIPOC/AAPI/Filipinx Affinity community wellness

Awards And Honors

Tishman Environment and Design Faculty Grant

Laudromat Project Create Change Fellowship

Portfolio

studiogalaxxxia.com

dancitecture.com