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Announcements 2009:
November 2009:
Jaewan Park with principal-investigator Prof. Jeffrey Huang (EPFL) and Prof. Jin Won Choi (Yonsei Univ.) were awarded a $40,000 Strategic Korean-Swiss Cooperative Program Grant to study the "Developing an Authoring Tool for an Interactive Media Skin" from National Reseach Foundation of Korea and ETHZ of Switzerland. The project is Jaewan's on-going doctoral research project at GSD.
October 2009:
El Hadi Jazairy presented a paper entitled “Terraforming Artificial Territories in the Gulf” at SHOT2009: The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15-18 October 2009.
Diego Ibarra and Holly Wasilowski were accepted into and received a fellowship from the Harvard Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment. The consortium will foster a new community of doctoral students who will be well versed in the broad, interconnected issues of energy and environment while maintaining their focus in their primary discipline. Through debate and dialogue in coursework and seminars, students will be able to identify the obstacles, highlight the opportunities, and define the discussion of an energy strategy for the 21st century and beyond.
New Geographies #2 is comming soon (Editor-in-chief Rania Ghosn).
El Hadi Jazairy presented a paper entitled "Dubai Archipelago from Above: The Aerial Vision-Based Model of Urbanism" at U&U 2009: The 5th International Urbanism and Urbanization Seminar, Leuven, Belgium, 1-3 October 2009.
Jawn Tze-hin Lim has been appointed as a consultant for the Mobility-On-Demand project with the Smart Cities Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Jawn Tze-hin Lim has recently published an article entitled "Lost in Translations" in Singapore Architect Magazine Issue 251.
Jawn Tze-hin Lim was interviewed by CUBES Magazine Singapore. [ www.cubes.com.sg ]
Suzanne Lanyi Charles presented a paper at the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference in Washington DC, October 3, 2009.
Suzanne Lanyi Charles was awarded a $25,000 Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
September 2009:
We had nine incoming DDes students this year. (See the right picture, from left to right: Jawn Tze-hin Lim, Ying Zhang, Saehoon Kim, Nicole Beattie, Diego Ibarra, Holly Wasilowski, Faye Hays, Jonathan King, Nikolaos Katsikis and our professor for the Research Methods class, Dr. Christoph Reinhart)
August 2009:
Shelagh McCartney won an IFMA Foundation Scholarship and travel to World Workplace in Orlando in October. She will also be a lecturer during the fall semester at the University of Toronto teaching third year Master's level Architecture Studio "Culture and the Metropolis" and a Seminar on the Growth of the 21st Century Third World City.
July 2009:
Zenovia Toloudi has been accepted to present in the International Conference: File to factory: The design and fabrication of innovative forms in a continuum.
Zenovia Toloudi's MCUS [Micro Ceasefire Under Shadow] is presented at Video Art Festival Miden 2009: Urban [R]evolutions.
June 2009:
Jock Herron, DDes Candidate was awarded a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from The Bok Center, based on outstanding student evalutions. Jock taught Harvard College undergraduate sections in GSD Professor Alex Krieger's core curriculum course "Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form" in spring 2009.
Taro Narahara has won the Peter Rice Prize at the GSD. This prize was established in 1994 in recognition of the ideals and principles represented by the late eminent engineer Peter Rice. The prize honors students of exceptional promise in the school's architecture and advanced degree programs who have proven their competence and innovation in advancing architecture and structural engineering
Suzanne Lanyi Charles presented a paper at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Mid-Year Meeting in Washington DC, June 4, 2009.
May 2009:
Zenovia Toloudi was invited as a guest critic in final studios at Boston Architectural College.
Aylin Yildirim will present a paper at the Joint International Symposium "Revitalising Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses" in Istanbul at Istanbul Technical University.
April 2009:
GSD hosts the Critical Digital Conference 2009. The Advisory Committee consisted of: Antoine Picon,
Kostas Terzidis,
Sanford Kwinter,
Ingeborg Rocker,
Mariana Ibanez,
Simon Kim,
Sotirios Kotsopoulos, and
Teri Rueb. The Organizing Committee consisted of
Jan Jungclaus,
Nashid Nabian,
Zenovia Toloudi,
Dido Tsigaridi,
Taro Narahara, Stephen Schaum,
Tamaho Shigemura,
Jeffery Roberson,
Jen Ting Cho, and
Huiying Ke.
Click here for information about the event.
Wanda Liebermann received a Penny White award. This grant program was established by her family in 1976 to "help carry forward Penny's ideal of a culture which emphasizes a close relationship between people and nature in a cohesive living environment." Several grants are offered, three times annually, for submitted projects
This spring, Shelagh McCartney will be teaching as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in the fourth year architecture core Comprehensive Building Studio.
El Hadi Jazairy published an article entitled "Imaging Dubai's Palm Islands: The Construction of Land and Representation through the Satellite View" in Topos: The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, No.66, pp.46-51, 2009.
March 2009:
Zenovia Toloudi presented her doctoral work in Design and Computation PhD Forum at MIT.
Suzanne Lanyi Charles presented her paper "Suburban Gentrification: Examining the Redevelopment of Single-family Housing in Chicago's Postwar Suburbs," at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, March 5, 2009.
Suzanne Lanyi Charles with principal-investigator Dr. Nicolas Oreskovic and co-investigator Dr. Moshe Bar were awarded a Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant to study the "Use of Functional Neuroimaging to Assess Effects of Viewing the Built Environment." The project is a cross-disciplinary research project involving the Harvard Medical School/MGH and the Graduate School of Design.
February 2009:
Aylin Yildirim has been accepted to the City Futures Conference '09.
January 2009:
Shelagh McCartney was named a Cashin Scholar by FIABCI.
Teri Rueb published an essay, "Shifting Subjects in Locative Media", in "Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools", Ed. Hawk, et al (University of Minnesota Press, 2008).
Zenovia Toloudi's research team work- on the Implementation Plan and Production Strategy of an electric Scooter (RoboScooter) sharing system for the city of Cape Town during the World Cup of 2010- is presented in South Africa to the government.
Click here to view announcments of 2008.