Biocultural Design is a Hawai‘i-based landscape masterplanning and design studio. Operating at the intersection of ecology, culture, and community, the landscape studio focuses on design that restores biocultural relationships across the pae ‘āina. Based on Kaua’i, Biocultural Design draws from close collaboration with Limahuli Garden & Preserve—an incubator for practice-based learning with biologists, cultural practitioners, horticulturists, and stone wall builders.
We apply these principles across public, private, conservation, and nonprofit sectors, always centering community vision and ecological stewardship. Our work is grounded in a deep respect for place and a design methodology that values process, dialogue, and incremental, place-based transformation.
Biocultural Design
5-5226 Kuhio Hwy, #733
Hanalei, HI 96714
+1 (808) 482-9898
studio@biocultural.design
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Meet Our Team
Joshua Diem
Principal Landscape DesignerJoshua Diem is a landscape designer, builder, and conservationist. Having received his formal training as a Landscape Architect from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Joshua comes from years of field experience with Limahuli Botanical Garden & Preserve. There he has worked to recover significant archeologic sites within the preserve and employ schematic spatial thinking to the valley as a traditional Ahupua’a System. Knowledgeable in Hawaiian plants, traditional land systems and building techniques, Joshua practices with a design approach that integrates the knowledge and resiliency of Hawaii’s ancestral planters with a forward-thinking vision for Hawaii’s contemporary landscapes and the landscapes of our Islands future. Outside of his primary research and design work, Joshua together with his wife Claire, steward the land of their home in Ha’ena, caring for their mala (garden).
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