Jihan Sherman is an architect, designer, and artist.

Jihan Sherman is a writer, creative, and maker.

Jihan Sherman is curious, questioning, and learning.

Her work explores notions of design, culture, and materiality with a curiosity about our artifacts, spaces, and stories. Her research examines design through frameworks and methods that confront historical transgressions, engage present bias and harm, and imagine progressive futures. Her research has included working with African American craftswomen to explore counter-narratives of design and craft-based methods that center on care, healing, and the lived experiences of Black women. Her work spans design disciplines and questions how we make with the world around us and how design and technology negotiate social, political, cultural, and material relations.

Jihan holds a PhD in Digital Media, a Master of Architecture and BS in Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology. She previously worked with Lord Aeck Sargent’s Historic Preservation studio where she contributed to award winning projects such as the restoration of Hardman Farms in Helen, GA and the rehabilitation of the Hinman Building at Georgia Tech. She has taught design studios at Georgia Tech and Kennesaw State University, spanning topics exploring fundamental design principles, parametric form generation, materiality, urban form, community, and place making.

Jihan is the founder and creative director of Estelle + Boots, a multidisciplinary creative practice that engages design through storytelling, placemaking, and the power of mindful everyday encounters. The practice engages an ethos that pays homage to our connections to each other, place, material, legacies of the past, and future histories.