October 3, 2026 / Conference: ACSA 2026 Intersections Research Conference: URBAN DESIGN MATTERS
July 14, 2026 / Workshop: International Architecture Studio Workshop at Gyeongsang National University (GNU)
July 8, 2026 / Book: Homes on Native Grounds: Collaborative Design with Shinnecock Nation
May 26, 2026 / Project: A Modern Wigwam: Building Social Infrastructure Through Housing
May 1, 2026 / Symposium: Rediscovering Koreanness - First Annual Design Korea Research Hub Symposium
March 25, 2026 / Symposium: Post-Human Korea: Religion and Feminism in the Post-Cold War Technoscape
March 19, 2026 / Lecture: Gyeongsang National University (GNU)
February 24, 2025 / Talk: Harvard GSD Design Research Forum (DRF), MDes Alumni Panel
January 14, 2025 / Book Chapter: Mapping the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as a Proving Ground: Imagining the Impossible
January 8, 2025 / Talk: Tiki-taka Conversation "So What?"
November 4, 2024 / Lecture: Imagining the Impossible: The Demilitarized Zone as a Proving Ground
October 18, 2024 / Symposium: (Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories, and Transformation
September 1, 2024 / Tenure and Promotion
June 23, 2024 / Competition: Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Fiji 2025
June 21, 2024 / Expert Commentary: Dongsei Kim Featured on CBS News on North Korean DMZ Construction
March 15, 2024 / Proceedings: 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting
March 15, 2024 / Conference: ACSA 112th Annual Meeting
February 15, 2024 / Project: Future Learning Project with Middle School 484 Brooklyn, NY
February 7, 2024 / Project: Future Learning Project with Middle School 354 Brooklyn, NY
December 8, 2023 / Radio: WLIW-FM-Morning Edition
December 5, 2023 / Newspaper: Sag Harbor Express
November 17, 2023 / Book Talk: Tiki-Taka: Ways of Seeing Beyond Architecture with Design
August 2023 / Presidential Excellence Award
June 13, 2023 / Project: NYSCA Grant Proposal: Performing Borders
May 2023 / New Faculty Excellence Award
April 27, 2023 / Symposium: Towards an Inclusive City: Leave No One Behind
February 2023 / Exhibition: Google Arts & Culture – Korea’s Demilitarized Zone
December 2022 / Book: Drawing Hwa-Chaeng: Mapping Contested Territories for Imagination
November 25, 2022 / Competition: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2023
September 27, 2022 / Workshop: Cartographic Literacy Skills Workshop: Seven Points of Mapping
September 1, 2022 / Competition: Land Art Generator
July 8, 2022 / Exhibition: Experimental Landings
July 7, 2022 / Roundtable & Workshop: ACSA 2022 Teachers Summit
July 1, 2022 / Competition: LA+ Interruption
June 24, 2022 / Conference: Asian Borderlands Research Network
May 11, 2022 / Publication Launch & Conversation: Architecture Beyond Buildings
May 4, 2022 / Article: The Blog of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
December 21, 2021 / International Workshop: (De)mapping: States/Identities/Borders/Bodies
May 2021 / Book: Reading Beyond
February 9, 2021 / Lecture: University of Hong Kong
November 16, 2020 / Lecture: Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
October 9, 2020 / Talk: Columbia University Seminar
September 30, 2020 / Roundtable Discussion: Critical Density – Health, Ecology, Economy & Equity
September 12, 2020 / Exhibition: Negotiating Borders - Real DMZ Project
September 2020 / Journal: Red Envelope
August 28, 2020 / Competition: Sudbury 2050
July 31, 2020 / Lecture: University of Technology Sydney
July 10, 2020 / Workshop: Future School Summer Studio
May 31, 2020 / Journal: The Journal of Seoul Studies
January 30, 2020 / Lecture: University of California Irvine
January 22, 2020 / Symposium: International Symposium on Northeast Asian Urban Studies
December 2019 / Journal: Architectural Critics Journal
September 25, 2019 / Lecture: Stuckeman School, Penn State University
September 7, 2019 / Exhibition: 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
September 7, 2019 / Project: Countryside to Cityscape: The Slow Urbanisation of a Wellington Hillside
September 7, 2019 / Project: Organizing Enchantment: Collective Responses to Urban Trauma
September 2019 / Exhibition Catalog: DMZ
August 29, 2019 / Conference: Royal Geographical Society (RGS) + Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Annual International Conference
May 3, 2019 / Conference: Seoul Under Construction: Politics, Memory, and Urbanism in Korea
April 20, 2019 / Symposium: Project DMZ, 30 Years After
April 3, 2019 / Talk: Humanities Institute at Stony Brook
March 21, 2019 / Exhibition: DMZ
March 2, 2019 / Op-Ed: Salon
January 30, 2019 / Exhibition: Projecting the DMZ
January 29, 2019 / Radio: WAMC Academic Minute
October 13, 2018 / Conference: ACSA Fall Conference
October 11, 2018 / Exhibition: Portmanteau (suitcase) Exhibit
October 2018 / Proceedings: ACSA 2018 Fall Conference - Milwaukee
September 20, 2018 / Lecture: Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture
September 2018 / Journal: Topos
August 22, 2018 / Symposium: DMZ Creative Post
June 15, 2018 / Conference: ACSA/COAM International Conference
June 11, 2018 / Lecture: GSAPP, Columbia University
June 2018 / Proceedings: ACSA/COAM International Conference: New Instrumentalities - Madrid
Spring 2018 / Journal: Transect
September 5, 2017 / Symposium: Active Archive at Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
September 2, 2017 / Exhibition: Seoul Biennale International Studios (SBIS)
September 2, 2017 / Exhibition: Letters to the Mayor: Seoul + Pyongyang
May 2017 / Book: Chandigarh Rethink
April 24, 2017 / Exhibition: (im)positions - multimodal negotiations of place-identity
November 21, 2016 / Lecture: South China University of Technology (SCUT)
November 19, 2016 / Conference: 6th International Landscape Planning and Design Conference & Expo
Fall 2016 / Journal: The Site Magazine
May 1, 2016 / Talk: National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
March 1, 2016 / Panel Discussion: 2016 UQ Architecture Lecture Series
March 1, 2016 / Exhibition: Over the Boundary
January 13, 2016 / Lecture: Icheon City Hall
January 2016 / Project: Ambivalent Chittagong: Fluctuating in-between Utopia and Dystopia
January 2016 / Competition: Gwangju Folly III
January 2016 / Journal: Very Vary Veri
November 25, 2015 / Lecture: University of Seoul (UOS)
November 19, 2015 / Symposium: The Korean Association of North Korean Studies (KANKS) National Defense and Security Symposium
November 11, 2015 / Talk: State Library of Queensland (SLQ)
November 2015 / Feature: Space Magazine
October 16, 2015 / Talk: REAL DMZ PROJECT 2015 Curator & Artist Talk
October 7, 2015 / Conference: Crossing Division and Borders: Transnational Networks and New Directions of Unification
September 10, 2015 / Exhibition: Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula
August 29, 2015 / Exhibition: REAL DMZ PROJECT 2015
August 13, 2015 / Exhibition: REAL DMZ PROJECT 2015: Lived Time of Dongsong
July 24, 2015 / Symposium: Border Thinking/Thinking About Borders
July 2015 / Journal: Kerb Journal of Landscape Architecture
April 30, 2015 / Seminar: School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
March 12, 2015 / Exhibition: Homecoming Exhibition of the Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula
February 26, 2015 / Exhibition: Cold War, Hot Peace
February 13, 2015 / Exhibition: Making Border: Afterimages and Projections
December 12, 2014 / Exhibition: Envisioning the State of Division from the Cultural and Artistic Perspectives
December 2014 / Feature: Abstract 2013-2014
June 2015 / Book: Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics
November 2014 / Journal: Inflection
October 14, 2014 / Teaching: 32nd Space Prize for International Students of Architectural Design
July 2014 / Journal: Volume
July 2014 / Research: Learning from Japan The Role of Rail Infrastructure in Urban Growth
June 30, 2014 / Conference: IAG/NZGS (Institute of Australian Geographers/ New Zealand Geographical Society) Conference
June 23, 2014 / Conference: ACSA International Conference
June 9, 2014 / Conference: 1st Association of Borderlands Studies (ABS) World Conference
June 7, 2014 / Exhibition: Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition— la Biennale di Venezia
April 2014 / Feature: Abstract 2012-2013
April 11, 2014 / Conference: 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting "Globalizing Architecture/Flows and Disruptions"
February 2015 / Project: Uncovering the Agency of Unknown Armistice Maps: The First Iteration
September 2014 / Competition: Vision 42 Competition
June 2014 / Proceedings: ACSA International Conference: Open Cities: The New Post-Industrial World Order-Seoul
November 2013 / Book: Rebooting Urban Design: Energy, Economy, Ecology
June 2014 / Project: A Construct the Koreas (Never) Made Together: Deconstructing the DMZ for the Imaginary
May 2014 / Book: Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula
November 9, 2013 / Symposium: Beyond the Studio: Mojdeh Baratloo
May 2014 / Book: North Korean Atlas
November 4, 2013 / Lecture: Harvard Graduate School of Design
October 18, 2013 / Conference: Borders, Walls and Security
October 2013 / Journal: Building 22
July 27, 2013 / Exhibition: In Visible Borders
April 2013 / Journal: Landscape Architecture Frontiers
April 2013 / Proceedings: 101st ACSA Annual Meeting: New Constellations, New Ecologies
March 21, 2013 / Conference: ACSA 101st Annual Meeting
February 1, 2013 / Exhibition: Exposure-Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival
December 17, 2012 / Feature: Curbed
April 2014 / Proceedings: 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting: Globalizing Architecture/Flows and Disruptions
March 2013 / Competition: Henley Square Urban Design Competition
February 2013 / Competition: Flat Lot Competition
October 18, 2012 / Conference: Borders on Alert
June 28, 2012 / Conference: Borderscapes III
May 2012 / Project: Border as Urbanism: Redrawing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea
March 2012 / Project: Toward a Design Competition for a Korean DMZ Peace Park
November 2011 / Project: SPG Tower Façade Study
October 5, 2011 / Competition: Osong Bio Valley Master Plan International Competition
September 2011 / Competition: By the City / For the City
August 2011 / Competition: Busan International Opera House Competition
August 2011 / Competition: Parque de la Ciudadania Competition
August 2011 / Competition: Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition
May 2011 / Award: Harvard GSD Penny White Award
May 2011 / Book: The Demilitarized Zone: Redrawing the Border between North and South Korea beyond Tourism
May 2011 / Research: Seminal Blocks of the 20th Century and its Grid Morphology
December 2010 / Research: The Expanded Praxis
November 2010 / Competition: The 12th International Garden Festival
July 2010 / Competition: Solar Park South International Competition
November 2009 / Competition: Grand Concourse Beyond 100
September 2009 / Competition: San Francisco Botanical Garden Gondwana Circle International Competition
June 2009 / Competition: The 11th International Garden Festival
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