This paper explores monsoons as a set of atmospheric-orographic dynamics productive of water resources and as a site of actionable concern for landscape practice. From study to representation to design, the term "landscape practice" is used to describe a way of positioning environments as both subject and object of concern. While monsoons are constituents of many geographies, dynamics, materials and experiences, this paper focuses on the South Asian monsoon and its relationship with the Tibetan Plateau. In this region, freshwater resources are dependent on the monsoon; however, as rising global temperatures and rapid urban development significantly impact the behavior of the monsoon and the Plateau's ability to store freshwater, the monsoon-as a kinetic body of freshwater-becomes the focal point of visual media productions and extractive technologies that require a shifting of perspective from one that privileges land to one that centers the atmosphere. The inclusion of meteorological and atmospheric material and dynamics within the space of landscape practice, constructively challenges the spatial discipline's engagement with exploitable resources; and the monsoon provides a tangible site and set of conditions that is in urgent need of this exploration.

Christina Leigh Geros believes that landscape is more than the land, and that landscape architecture is a process of designing and reconciling disparate ‘momentums’. A tutor in the MA Environmental Architecture programme at the Royal College of Art, research fellow for Monsoon Assemblages at the University of Westminster, and design research strategist for PetaBencana.id, here she explores the expanding of the definition of ‘landscape’ through wider analysis of contemporary media, site and practice.

Godofredo Enes Pereira, Christina Leigh Geros and Jon Goodbun have been analysing governmental Green New Deal policy globally, viewing it through the microcosmic eye of their own research and that of their students on the MA Environmental Architecture course at the Royal College of Art in London. This includes their Lithium Triangle project that concentrates on the environmental damage caused by the extraction of lithium from the Chilean landscape, and the Orang‐orang and the Hutan project in Indonesia that contests Western dominance and the effects of centuries of colonisation.