With an approach that is both sensitive and situated, she explores how materials and objects are embedded in larger ecological, social and temporal networks, and how they can be altered by actively intervening in these.
Her work is driven by a keen curiosity about the human-nonhuman systems that shape our world. This manifests across a range of topics, including invasive ecologies, soil pollution, and human relationships with environmental actors such as the sun.
Kato is currently a PhD candidate within the Unfolding Ecologies Research Cluster at LUCA School of Arts (BE). Her design research project Gardening towards the Symbiocene investigates the role of material-driven design practice in imagining more-than-human futures.