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 – curious about our artifacts, spaces and stories. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree in Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines design through frameworks and methods for creating futures that confront historical transgressions, engage present bias and harm, and imagine progressive futures. She is currently 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 follows a curiosity about how we make with the world around us and how design and technology negotiate social, political, cultural, and material relations. Her making includes methods of collage, craft, painting, drawing, photography, computing, architectural constructions and design to reveal unexpected and critical relationships about the way we exist in a world that is physical and digital, local and global, as well as experiential and algorithmic.

Jihan holds 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. Additionally, she served as the curriculum coordinator of the Common First Year (CFY) in the College of Architecture (now the College of Design) at Georgia Tech, supporting a curriculum redesign facilitating inter-disciplinary learning and design-build projects.

Jihan is the owner and founder 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.