Planet 3, 48 x 64 inches, Digital print edition of 10
Bio:
Sang Yong Cho, Ph. D., is a researcher and designer bridging the domains of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and technology. His research focused on the near and long-term transition of energy, water, and carbon nexus between urban and industrial systems. He incorporates material flow accounting methods and urban metabolism principles to test the feasibility of integrating energy, water, waste flow between urban and the industrial sectors by examining emerging technologies. In addition, Sang and researchers at Samsung Medical Center are studying the association between breast cancer and air quality in Seoul, South Korea.
Sang is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning where he teaches landscape architecture and planning studios and seminars. Additionally, he is working with researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to study respiratory outcome and urban features incorporating innovative data-driven technologies and community engagement protocols to increase environmental health literacy outcomes for underserved communities.
He has practiced as a landscape planner in Boston; and was a former research fellow at Ulsan Research Institute, South Korea. He received his Master of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Trade-offs, 48 x 64 inches, Digital print edition of 10
Statement:
Sang Cho is a landscape planner, urbanist, technologist, and artist. Inspired by his research on urbanism and visual cartography, he creates cartographic depiction of land conflicts, extraction, and territorial development. He assembles various mark marking through digital drawings derived from city plans, geographic information systems, and historic maps to depict narratives concerning a shifting world environment shaped by 21st century anthropocene.
CV
SANG CHO
EDUCATION
D.DES. Harvard University Graduate School of Design
M.L.A. Harvard University Graduate School of Design
M.F.A. New York Academy of Art
B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
TEACHING ACTIVITY
Present “SCI 6241: Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World,”
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Teaching Fellow.
2018 - Present “Arch3308 Arch Studio 3 + Siteworks,” Boston Architectural College, Adjunct
Faculty.
2019 “Spatial Analytics & International Planning: Integration of Research & Practice,”
J-Term, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Instructor.
2017 - 2018 “Integrated Sustainable Design and Planning: From Building to Community,”
Harvard University Extension School, Teaching Fellow.
EXHIBITIONS
Cho, S & Kirkwood, N. (September-November 2019). Collective Commons.” Seoul Biennale of
Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, Korea
Kirkwood, N, Benedetto, F & Cho, S. (September-November 2017). International studios.” Seoul
Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, Korea
Kirkwood, N & Cho, S. (March – May 2018). Ulsan Remade: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial City.”
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Kirkwood, N, Benedetto, F & Cho, S. (July 2017). Ulsan Remade: Renovation of Modern Industrial City
Landscape and Contents.” Ulsan Development Institute, Ulsan, Korea
AWARDS
Divisions APA Massachusetts Chapter, 2018
Council Award
Second Prize MIT Water Night, Cambridge, MA, March 2016
Nominated ASLA Student Award, Cambridge, MA, May 2013
BUILT DESIGN
Co-Lead The Grove (08/2014-10/2014)
Designer I co-produced a 40,000 sq foot schematic design for a therapeutic garden patio for
a newly acquired nursing home facility in Los Angeles, California.
