Zaneta Hong
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Visiting Faculty
Gund 509
Zaneta is an educator and designer whose work bridges landscape architecture and sustainable food systems. Grounded in critical inquiry and collective care, her teaching and practice invites students to rethink how constructed environments are shaped by materials, food, and ecological processes. Her design pedagogy emphasizes material literacy, learning through making, and interdisciplinary collaboration across scales.
Her research explores edible ecologies and indigenous foodways as critical frameworks for design, tracing the material and cultural flows that connect extractive landscapes to domestic kitchens, markets, gardens, and everyday rituals of cultivation, (re)production, and consumption. Through projects ranging from objects to infrastructures, Zaneta integrates systems thinking, material experimentation, and visual storytelling to imagine more just and regenerative futures.
Zaneta is Co-Director of the Material Propositions Lab , a collaborative research platform focused on materials, ecology, and design. She also serves as a Research and Design Consultant with GA Collaborative , a multidisciplinary practice advancing equity-driven, sustainable, and affordable construction across East Africa and the United States. Her work has been recognized with the 2024 CELA Excellence in Teaching Award, the Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Daniel Urban Kiley Fellowship, and Certificate of Teaching Excellence Awards from the Harvard University Derek Bok Center.
