Birkhäuser and Harvard Graduate School of Design authors: Jinhee Park, John Hong From the Preface: In this era of intensifying transnational cultural flows, too often there is still an implied hierarchy: The power centers of information are still North American and European media outlets, especially in the realm of design. The culture of ancient Asia, […]
Harvard University, Gund Hall Gallery Curated by Jinhee Park, the exhibit emerged from a semester-long research project with students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. As the first cross-disciplinary exhibition on Korean Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design mounted in the United States, the featured work exemplifies the interrelated trajectories that mark the contemporary condition […]
Gwangju Biennale, Korea [curators’ selection for full scale construction, publication: Mole Magazine ]
Convergent Flux: Korea Society New York Stemming from a research project and exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, this interactive exhibition staged at the Korea Society examines contemporary Korea’s architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. The twenty-nine projects shown exemplify five interrelated themes that continue to shape modern Korea’s development. The topics of historical transformation, accelerated density, […]
Boston, MA SsD was selected to design and exhibit recent work in the BAC gallery on Newbury Street in Boston as well as teach a cross-discplinary studio as Distinguished Visiting Critics. Funded by the Hideo Sasaki Foundation, the work revolved around the notion of ‘socio-structural’ – how structural solutions can converge with ideas of shaping […]
Cute Little Things: ‘Totoro’s Sublime’ published in Mole: Cute Little Things Jinhee Park, John Hong, authors Even as adults, we have long admired Miyazaki Hayao’s animated character ‘Totoro’ from the movie My Neighbor Totoro (1988) because of the way the character portrayed a new definition of cuteness: instead of the infantilization first coined by ethnologist […]
