is a journalist and cultural critic who covers the social politics of contemporary art, architecture, environment, urban policy and immigration.
With experience in investigative reporting and art criticism, she’s particularly interested in how culture and design reflect politics and social movements and vice versa. Previous stories include reporting on irregular immigration through Mexico for Teen Vogue and The Nation; critiquing the Honduran goverment’s construction of the immigrant myth for Hyperallergic; questioning ‘popular design’ in Mexico for Frame and reporting on Australian tourism for the Washington Post and public architecture for Bloomberg CityLab.
She has also previously collaborated with SPACE10 by IKEA, MPavilion, Open House Melbourne, Savvy Studio and Design Hotels. Originally from Australia with heritage from Hong Kong, she is currently based in Mexico City. She holds an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, where she specialised in art criticism and architecture. Her master’s thesis explored place branding in Mexico City, while her research on modernist Uruguayan architect Mauricio Cravotto was included in (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America (2019).
With experience in investigative reporting and art criticism, she’s particularly interested in how culture and design reflect politics and social movements and vice versa. Previous stories include reporting on irregular immigration through Mexico for Teen Vogue and The Nation; critiquing the Honduran goverment’s construction of the immigrant myth for Hyperallergic; questioning ‘popular design’ in Mexico for Frame and reporting on Australian tourism for the Washington Post and public architecture for Bloomberg CityLab.
She has also previously collaborated with SPACE10 by IKEA, MPavilion, Open House Melbourne, Savvy Studio and Design Hotels. Originally from Australia with heritage from Hong Kong, she is currently based in Mexico City. She holds an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, where she specialised in art criticism and architecture. Her master’s thesis explored place branding in Mexico City, while her research on modernist Uruguayan architect Mauricio Cravotto was included in (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America (2019).
In her spare time she participates in the ceramics collective Diablitxs del Fuego which focuses on community-based practices and learning on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Please see her portfolio here.
She is available for photographic commissions in digital and film to accompany her editorial work.
For commissions, projects or collaborations please get in touch:
hiannette @ pm.me [without spaces]
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