On September 26, 2020, the Kemper Art Museum presented a lecture by the renowned landscape designer and artist Walter Hood, principal of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, and professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, discussed some of his recent innovative projects, including urban spaces, landscape design, and public art. In each of them, past and future matter equally, complicating the ways we understand memory of space and its revitalization in the present. The lens through which he illuminated his own work is that of postcolonialism, drawing on such influential theorists as W. E. B. Du Bois, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Robert J. C. Young. In doing so, he emphasized our current critical postcolonial moment, probing how concepts such as hybridity and difference may interrogate the design of public landscapes.