On Designers of Mountain and Water: A Conversation with Jungyoon Kim and Nicholas Harkness

Link to full article: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2026/05/designers-of-mountain-and-water-interview-with-jungyoon-kim-and-nicholas-harkness/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020260507%20(1)

Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate, an exhibition on view through May 15 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), explores how landscape architects in Asia engage with regional traditions and conditions while shaping a more resilient contemporary world.

Jungyoon Kim, Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the GSD and Co-founder of PARKKIM, who curated the exhibition, and Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University, reflect on its significance.