Instructor Jae-Sung Chon
Instructor, Environmental Design Program
201K Russell Building
t 204.474.6422
f 204.474.7532
jchon@cc.umanitoba.ca
Education
B.Sc.Arch.Eng, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Grad.Dip.Hous, McGill University, Quebec
M.Arch, University of Manitoba
Research
Focused on two interrelated subjects, hybrid morphologies (spatial, formal and operational assemblages of man-machine-nature) and environmental tectonics (formal operations informed by and responsive to environmental values), Professor Chon’s research explores the relevance and utility of post-humanist discourse (cyborg/hybrid metaphor) within the domains of urban ecology.
His current PhD research (University College London, Department of Geography & Urban Laboratory), discusses ‘urban gaps’, forged by postwar elevated urban roads, as latent sites for post-functional and post-carbon imaginations. Taking ‘infra-structures’ as forms of ‘sub-presence’ of others, the discussion expands the recent discourses around ‘informal urbanism’ and imagines spatial conditions for cohabitation and coproduction of human and non-human: a braid urbanism.
201K Russell Building
t 204.474.6422
f 204.474.7532
jchon@cc.umanitoba.ca
Education
B.Sc.Arch.Eng, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Grad.Dip.Hous, McGill University, Quebec
M.Arch, University of Manitoba
Research
Focused on two interrelated subjects, hybrid morphologies (spatial, formal and operational assemblages of man-machine-nature) and environmental tectonics (formal operations informed by and responsive to environmental values), Professor Chon’s research explores the relevance and utility of post-humanist discourse (cyborg/hybrid metaphor) within the domains of urban ecology.
His current PhD research (University College London, Department of Geography & Urban Laboratory), discusses ‘urban gaps’, forged by postwar elevated urban roads, as latent sites for post-functional and post-carbon imaginations. Taking ‘infra-structures’ as forms of ‘sub-presence’ of others, the discussion expands the recent discourses around ‘informal urbanism’ and imagines spatial conditions for cohabitation and coproduction of human and non-human: a braid urbanism.
