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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20260205
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/designers-of-mountain-and-wate
 r-alternative-landscapes-for-a-changing-climate/
SUMMARY:Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Chang
 ing Climate
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n\nThe Sinographic compound (山水)\, denotin
 g “mountain and water\,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts\,
  with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China
 \, sansui in Japan\, and sansu in Korea\, the term has historically re
 ferred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world
 \, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate
  change underway\, what contemporary elements and dimensions of nature are
  necessary for designing and building sustainable spaces for human habitat
 ion and flourishing? Contemporary landscape architects from Northeast and 
 Southeast Asia are trying to answer this question by rethinking the relati
 on between social and natural forms. Their aim is to design habitable futu
 res at the intersection of the two.\n\nThis conference will feature leadin
 g landscape architects and scholars from China\, Japan\, Korea\, Malaysia\
 , Singapore\, and Thailand\, as well as Australia and the US\, to discuss 
 the perspectives\, histories\, politics\, and the most compelling projects
  of sustainable design in the Asian context.\n\nThis conference accompanie
 s the exhibition Designers of Mountain and Water\, which will be on disp
 lay in the Druker Design Gallery from January 20 to April 4\, 2026. Curate
 d by Jungyoon Kim\, Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architect
 ure at the GSD\, the exhibition features more than 45 works of landscape a
 rchitecture by 23 practices in Asia.\n\nFor more information\, visit the c
 onference website\n\nEvent registration\n\nThis conference and affiliated
  exhibition are organized by the Graduate School of Design and the Korea 
 Institute\, Harvard University. They are also supported by the Harvard Uni
 versity Asia Center\, the Southeast Asia Initiative\, the Edwin O. Reischa
 uer Institute of Japanese Studies\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studie
 s\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Instit
 ute\, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The project i
 s also supported by Daniel Urban Kiley Exhibition Fund at the GSD.
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LOCATION:Piper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, 48 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, Un
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