Dongsei Kim is a registered architect and urban designer. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Melbourne University, teaches at RMIT and is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University, GSAPP. He received his masters degrees in urbanism from Harvard University and Columbia University, and a professional B.Arch (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. His current research focuses on contemporary urbanism and urbanism related to national border territories. He has practiced in New York, Wellington, and Seoul and has extensively taught architecture and urbanism at leading universities in US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Korea.