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Kyong Park | Photo © Jipil Jung, 2022

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Kyong Park was born in Korea and moved to the United States at the age of twelve. He received a BS in Architecture from the University of Michigan in 1978 and participated in a post-graduate independent program at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in 1979.

Professional Work and Career

Kyong was the founding director of Centrala Foundation for Future Cities in Rotterdam [2005], a co-curator of Europe Lost and Found, a project on future geography of Europe, and a founding member of Lost Highway, a mass expedition through nine cities in the Western Balkans.

He is the editor of Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond [2005], a co-curator for Shrinking Cities in Berlin [2002-2004], the founding director of International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit [1999-2001], a curator of Kwangju Biennale in South Korea [1997], a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University [1996], and the founder/director of StoreFront f