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- November 8, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Opening for The Laboratory at Harvard
6:30pm - 8:00pm · The Laboratory, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MAArt, like science, is an experience, and yet, we encounter art and science in our museums more frequently as outcome. Process, of course, is hard to define, to classify or to curate. It can seem beside the point. Sometimes, however, it is not. Occasionally, processes of exploration, discovery and innovation matter more than any result these processes ever produce. What is this creative process?
Idea development in culture, industry, education and society can be conceived as a kind of experimentation, where the catalyst for change, for movement -- for innovation -- is a fusion of those creative processes we conventionally think of as art and as science.
This fused process is the basis of Le Laboratoire in Paris.
The Idea Translation Lab at Harvard, in collaboration with FAS, SEAS, the GSD, the A.R.T, the Office of the Provost, HIGH, and The Wyss Institute, is in the process of developing an exhibition and idea lab space within the common spaces of the Northwest Science Building for the greater Harvard community.
It will be called The Laboratory at Harvard.For more information visit: The Laboratory at Harvard official site
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- November 7, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Preparing Urban Planners and Urban Designers for Our Urban Age: A Colloquium at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
9:00am - 3:30pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallThe Graduate School of Design is having internal discussions about the future of educating effective and wise (and, of course, talented and creative) urban planners and urban designers. Indeed, discussion and exchange of perspective is what we hope to stimulate among the invited panelists and with GSD faculty and students. The day will be divided into three panels as outlined below. Each panelist will deliver a brief statement--fifteen to twenty minutes--for the purpose of stimulating a discussion. Each panel will be moderated by a faculty member. Following each set of three presentations, or provocations, the moderator will first engage the panelists with some follow-up questions and then reach out to others in attendance.
9:00 am
Welcome and Introductions (Alex Krieger)
9:15 - 10:45
PANEL 1: "An International Perspective: Educating Planners and Urban Designers to Respond to a Rapidly (and Economically Unequally) Urbanizing World"
Stefano Boeri, Professor of Urban Design, Politecnico di Milano
Joan Fitzgerald, Professor and Director, Law, Policy and Society Program, Northeastern University
Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Architecture, MIT
Moderator: Judith Grant Long, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, GSD
11:00 - 12:30
PANEL 2: "What Do Planners and Urban Designers (and Other Urbanists) Need to Learn From One Another?"
Toni Griffin, Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning, GSD and Director of Planning and Community Development, Newark, NJ
Richard Marshall, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Sydney and Director of Urban Design, Woods Bagot
Niraj Verma, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, SUNY,Buffalo
Moderator: Matt Kiefer, Director, Goulston & Storrs and Lecturer, GSD
12:45 - 1:45
Break
1:45 - 3:15
PANEL 3: "Exploring Interdependencies Among Context, Landscape, Urbanism & Ecology"
Maurice Cox, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia and Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts
Nina Marie Lister, Associate Professor of Urban + Regional Planning, Ryerson University
Moderator: Anita Berrizbeitia, Professor of Landscape Architecture, GSD
3:15-3:30
Wrap-upFor event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- November 6, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
GSD Admissions Open House
GSD First FloorOpen House for prospective students
For event details contact: Jill Harrington (jharrington@gsd.harvard.edu)
Green Design Film Series: "Koyaanisqatsi"
9:00pm - 11:00pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallKOYAANISQATSI, Godfrey Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass. Reggio has said, "I'm not a filmmaker, and I don't intend to make other films. I didn't want to have to learn things a filmmaker knows. I just wanted to express an idea that has been in my mind, to show that we are in a society that is becoming overwhelmed by spectacle and to show how this has distanced us. I wanted to make the point that we have to make choices between beauty and the beast." Or to further define the meaning of koyaanisqatsi, the Hopi also use the word to express the concept of "a way of life that calls for another way of living."
For more information visit: Film Website
or: LA Magazine review, 1983
For event details contact: Julia Africa (jafrica@gsd.harvard.edu)
- November 5, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
BalletGSD Film Screenings: "Pulcinella" and "Ballet Mecanique"
6:30pm - 8:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall"Pulcinella" (1920)
Music by Stravinsky; Saint Martin in the Fields (orchestra)
Pulcinella was created for a small orchestra comprised of approximately 30 musicians (without percussions) and 3 voices. The ballet was first preformed on May 15, 1920 in the Opera of Paris, under the direction of Ernest Anserment with the set designed by Pablo Picasso. Based on an imaginary character from the Commedia dell'arte, Pulcinella is presented as a character embarking on a series of adventures in love and laughter.
"Ballet Mecanique" (1924)
Directed by Fernand Leger and Dudley Murphy
Contributing to vanguard film, Ballet mecanique takes place in the first half of the 20thcentury within a movement that supported abstract cinema. With the collaboration of Dudley Murphy, Fernand Leger filmed this short movie as a screening meant to be combined with George Antheil's musical composition involving several mechanical pianos. The film is organized through kaleidoscopic images where the human face is decomposed. It synthesizes visual rhymes with geometric shapes seen as perceptual jumps following the music of the machines.For event details contact: Zeltia Vega Santiago (zvegasan@gsd.harvard.edu)
- November 4, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Landscape Lunchbox Series: Pierre Belanger, "Maasvlakte 2100"
12:30pm - 1:30pm · Portico 121, Gund HallProjecting a 100-year strategy for the Port of Rotterdam in the Maas-Rhine River Delta region, the presentation focuses on the future of De Slufter, the largest single most important sludge disposal facility in the world.
Light lunch will be served.
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Pierre Belanger is Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He teaches graduate courses on landscape and infrastructure in the interrelated fields of planning, design and engineering.
Cited by urbanists and thinkers such as AbdouMaliq Simone, Elizabeth K. Meyer and Jennifer Leonard, Belanger's research work is published in planning, design and engineering journals and books including Topos, The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Geoinformatics, Journal of Tunneling and Underground Space Technology, Trash, Food, Canadian Architect and 306090. Belanger's most recent publications include "Landscape as Infrastructure" (2009), Landscapes of Disassembly" (2007), "Synthetic Surfaces" (2007), "Foodshed: The Cosmopolitan Infrastructure of the Ontario Food Terminal" (2007) and, "Airspace: The Economy and Ecology of Landfilling in Michigan" (2006). Belanger has received several honorable mentions in planning and design competitions including 2G's 2008 Venice Lagoon Competition, the AIA's 2007 Columbus Rewired Design Competition, the 2007 Hadspen Parabola Design Competition, the 2007 Chicago Prize, the University of Washington in St. Louis' 2006 Steedman Fellowship Competition and the Architectural Association 2006 Environmental Tectonics Competition. Belanger is recipient of the 2008/2009 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
As a member of the internationally recognized Harvard Project on the City led by architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, Belanger completed graduate studies for the Masters in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where he received the Janet Darling Webel and Norman T. Newton Prizes in Design. Prior to that, he worked as a project manager for Brinkman & Associates, Canada's largest reforestation and bio-engineering contractor. Belanger is professionally registered as a Landscape Architect and Urban Planner as well as certified in Canada as a Surface Miner, skilled in precision earthmoving and heavy equipment operations.
Combining knowledge from the engineering and environmental sciences, Belanger collaborates with public agencies, private landowners, regional authorities and a team of interdisciplinary practitioners unilaterally focused on the dual objectives of ecological durability and economic performance in the reclamation of regional systems and large urban landscapes. Through the inception of the Landscape Infrastructure Lab in 2006 (a federally incorporated non-profit planning organization), Belanger initiates and coordinates a portfolio of projects funded by public/private partnerships that include the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Transport Canada, Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, the Toronto Region Conservation Authority, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, Waste Management Inc. and the City of Toronto. Outcomes from those collaborations include hydrological works for the Pearson Airport Eco-Business Zone, a mapping/fabrication lab at the Daniels Faculty of Design and the Landscape Infrastructures Symposium at the University of Toronto. Belanger is appointed as a member of the TRCA Etobicoke-Mimico Watershed Coalition Task Force, one of the most industrialized regions in the Great Lakes, and as a director on the Ontario Food Terminal Board, the largest wholesale food distribution facility in Canada.For event details contact: Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu)
Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: Homelessness
1:00pm - 2:00pm · Harvard Kennedy School, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 160Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Philip Mangano, The American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness
Sponsored by Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.For more information visit: Joint Center for Housing Studies event calendar
For event details contact: Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu)
- November 3, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Margaret McCurry Lecture in the Design Arts: Patrick Blanc, "The Vertical Garden, From Nature to the City"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallThe Vertical Garden, from nature to the city... or how to bring biodiversity close to everyone's daily life.
Patrick Blanc is a botanist and has worked at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique since 1982. He has pursued scientific missions in French Guyana and Cameroon, and has worked to discover and promote new plant species. He has been awarded the Silver Medal by the Architecture Academy (2005), Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2005), and Virgile prize for his book Etre Plante a l'ombre des forets tropicales (2003), among other awards. He frequently lectures and makes presentations on television and radio. His publications include Les Murs Vegetaux, de la Nature a la Ville (2007, published in English 2008), Folies Vegetales (2006), and Biologie des plantes de sous-bois tropicaux (1989).
Dr. Blanc has collaborated with several notable architects including Jean Nouvel, Andree Putman, Francis Soler, Edouard Francois, Jacqueline et Henri Boiffils, Herzog and de Meuron, Marc Newson, and Saguez and Partners.For more information visit: Patrick Blanc Vertical Garden website
or: Frances Loeb Library bibliography for Patrick Blanc
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- November 2, 2009
Platform GSD 09
11/2/2009 - 12/20/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThe Graduate School of Design is the site of many research-based conjectures and experiments. In core and options studios, seminars, independent study, and thesis work, students and faculty expand the literal, figurative, and virtual boundaries of design. Despite our diverse disciplinary affiliations, the work of the school also strives to be collaborative and insistently cross-disciplinary, for only in this way can we make significant and innovative contributions to creating a better world.
Our intention is to explore the productive space between disciplinary advancement and cultural and social aspirations. We believe in the role of design as a form of constructed imagination that incorporates an ethical and political dimension. This engaged character of work provides a voice--a participatory and perceptual presence--to our design efforts. In this process, the advances in research and scholarship of the disciplines are informed by a much wider and more complex set of influences.For more information visit: Further description on the Current Exhibitions page
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 31, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 30, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
ADD+ ARQUITECTURA_bailo+rull_BARCELONA
5:00pm - 6:30pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallEuropean Design Circle + Latin GSD 09-10 Lecture Series
Manuel Bailo and Rosa Rull founded BAILORULL ADD+ in Barcelona in 1995. In their projects crystallizes a process of investigation that looks for the balance between assimilation of new ways of reading landscape taken from extra-architectural disciplines and their implementation through a close-to-manufacture technology.
Fully published and awarded some of their work has been shown at On Site:New Spanish Architecture, MOMA Museum of New York in 2006. All disciplines are welcomed!For more information visit: Firm Website
For event details contact: Lorena Bello Gomez (lbellogo@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 29, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
NOW? Ideas on the Art, Science & Design of Taste / David Edwards in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
12:00pm - 2:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallDavid Edwards is the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
David is a biomedical engineer and writer actively involved in the translation of ideas from the university through novel medical technology, and the writing, performing and visual arts. His scientific research concerns the mathematical design of novel physical parameters that allow nanostructured materials to efficiently deliver drugs and vaccines to the lungs and other human organs, with a special focus on infectious diseases in developing world nations. Current work in his laboratory includes the development of novel antibiotic therapies for tuberculosis and a new delivery platform for needle-free childhood vaccines. Medicine in Need, or MEND, is an international not-for-profit organization that translates research from David's lab to clinical practice in South Africa and other developing world environments. He lives with his wife and three sons in Boston and Paris. David is the co-author of numerous scientific publications in the fields of fluid mechanics, interfacial transport phenomena, drug delivery, and aerosol science. He has published two textbooks (Interfacial Transport Properties and Rheology, 1991, and Macrotransport Processes,, 1993) and is the author of numerous patents in the area of drug delivery, with a special focus on novel medical aerosols. A member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2001, David is a three-time recipient of the Ebert Prize of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1996, 1997, 1999), and the winner of various national and international awards including the Theodor Herzl Award of the Jersusalem Fund and the Municipality of Jerusalem, the Smoluchowski Award of the European Aerosol Association, and the Professional Progress Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
David's artistic work includes his founding and direction of Le Laboratoire, a new innovation space in downtown Paris, where artists and scientists perform collaborative experiments. The outcomes of these experiments are exhibited to the public in the form of contemporary art and design installations. Since its opening in October 2007, Laboratoire exhibitions have attracted broad international attention, with exhibition themes ranging from contemporary art, to industrial design, to humanitarian advocacy. The principal of Le Laboratoire as an artscience catalyst for innovation is described in David's recent book Artscience: Creativity in the post-Google Generation (Harvard 2008), which draws on the experience of many contemporary innovators in Boston and internationally. His French novel, Niche (Ecole de Beaux Arts de Paris), co-written with novelist Jay Cantor, is the first of a series based on creation at Le Laboratoire. For his work in the arts in France David was recently made a Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. David is also the co-founder with his wife of the urban youth art Boston-based Cloud Foundation.
Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design
NOW? is an occasional series of conversations about ideas, images, words, things, drawings, places, designs.
NOW? is also a specific temporal moment -- of thought and action -- caught between the present and possible futuresFor more information visit: Prof. Edwards' faculty profile at Harvard SEAS
or: Dean Mostafavi's faculty profile at Harvard GSD
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 28, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Landscape Lunchbox Series: Chris Reed, "Beyond Landscape"
12:30pm - 1:30pm · Portico 123, Gund HallChris Reed is the principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice. Stoss has distinguished itself internationally for a hybridized approach to public works projects rooted in infrastructure, functionality, and ecology. Stoss has been named finalist and winner in a number of international open space design and planning competitions, including the Erie Street Plaza in Milwaukee, the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, and the Safe Zone garden installation at Grand-Metis, Quebec, Canada. Most recently, Stoss was honored by being named one of two Finalists in the Landscape Design category of the Smithsonian / Cooper Hewitt Museum's National Design Awards. Stoss was also named a 2008 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, and its proposal for the Lower Don Lands in Toronto received a planning award from EDRA / Places / Metropolis. The firm's work has just been published in a volume published by C3 Publishers of Korea. Current and recent work includes public waterfronts, brownfield reclamation projects, interim landscapes, and large-scale infrastructures and open spaces in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East.
Reed is a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, and RISD, among others. He is a registered landscape architect.
A light lunch will be served.For more information visit: stossLU
For event details contact: Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu)
Josep Lluis Sert Lecture: Jerold Kayden, "The Place of Planning"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallProfessor Kayden's lecture will explore the role over time of planning as profession, and how planning in the future may choose to distinguish itself in encouraging productive, sustainable, equitable, and enjoyable places in which people live, work, and play.
Jerold S. Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he previously served as Co-Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Master in Urban Planning Degree Program. His research and teaching focus on law and the built environment as well as public-private urban development. His books include Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience; Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America's Communities; and Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still To Keep. He has also written numerous articles on subjects involving property rights and government regulation, smart growth, design codes, and market-based regulatory instruments.
As urban planner and lawyer, Professor Kayden has served governments, non-governmental organizations, and private developers around the world. He has represented clients in court, appeared as expert witness, and written amicus curiae briefs in significant U.S. Supreme Court land-use cases. For the past 15 years, he has been the principal constitutional counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.. He founded and heads Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, a non-profit organization in New York City whose mission is to improve that city's zoning-created plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces.
Internationally, Professor Kayden has been a consultant to the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the United States Agency for International Development, and the United Nations Development Programme, working in China, Nepal, Armenia, Ukraine, and Russia. From 1992 to 1994, he was Senior Advisor on Land Reform and Privatization to the Government of Ukraine on behalf of USAID/PADCO.
Professor Kayden's numerous honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, the Environmental Design Research Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Society of Landscape Architects, several National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and recognition as "Teacher of the Year" at the Graduate School of Design. He earned his undergraduate, law, and city and regional planning degrees from Harvard, and subsequently served as law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge James L. Oakes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 27, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Iwan Baan, "Architectural Photography and The Decisive Moment"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallIwan Baan is a documentary photographer whose work can be regularly found in architectural journals like Domus, a+u, Mark or abitare and magazines like the New Yorker or NY Times. Personal exhibitions include Recent Works - Contemporary Architectural Photographs at the Architectural Association - London and Building China Five Projects, Five Stories at the The AIA New York Chapter.
Iwan Baan's pictures revolve around architecture and its effect on context, using the built environment as a backdrop for stories which unfold in the foreground. He is curating, documenting and collecting spaces from all over the world, revealing the role of architecture in contrasting urban, social and economic settings.
From Iwan Baan:
The lecture is a brief insight in the process of capturing and telling stories with architecture as the scenery for different cultures and their ways of life. It is walk-through in pictures of my particular fascination with public space, the backdrop and generator of everyday life and my interest in documentary and reportage which lead me to the social perspective of photography, allowing me to illustrate what kind of difference public space and architecture can make in people's lives.For more information visit: Iwan Baan
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 26, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
10th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture: Shaun Donovan, "Toward a More Sustainable Future: Housing, Place and the New Federalism"
6:00pm - 7:00pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallThe Honorable Shaun Donovan
Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
AB '87, MArch '95, MPA '95
On January 26, 2009, Shaun Donovan was sworn in as the 15th United States Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. He has devoted his career to ensuring access to safe, decent, and affordable housing nationwide, and will carry on that effort in the Obama Administration. Secretary Donovan believes that America's homes are the foundation for family, safe neighborhoods, good schools, and solid businesses, and that housing represents and confers stability - a base from which to raise America's children. He joins HUD with the commitment to make quality housing possible for every American.
Secretary Donovan previously served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). When he became Commissioner of HPD in early 2004, Shaun Donovan engaged the agency in a top-to-bottom strategic planning process. This resulted in new and innovative policy and programmatic solutions, and better measurement of results. During his service, HPD's New Housing Marketplace Plan to build and preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing was the largest housing plan in the nation.
Before his service as HPD Commissioner, Secretary Donovan worked in the private sector on affordable housing portfolios, and was a visiting scholar at New York University, where he researched and wrote about the preservation of federally-assisted housing. He was also a consultant to the Millennial Housing Commission on strategies for increasing the production of multifamily housing. The Commission was created by the United States Congress to recommend ways to expand housing opportunities across the nation.
Secretary Donovan rejoins HUD after his previous service as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing, where he was the primary federal official responsible for privately-owned multifamily housing. At that time, he ran housing programs that helped 1.7 million families access affordable housing. He also served as acting FHA Commissioner during the presidential transition.
Prior to his first service at HUD, he worked at the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) in New York City, a non-profit lender and developer of affordable housing. He also researched and wrote about housing policy at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and worked as an architect. Secretary Donovan holds Masters degrees in Public Administration and Architecture from Harvard University.
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The John T. Dunlop Lecture series was founded in 1999 through a partnership between the Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Housing Endowment, and the Graduate School of Design to serve as a lasting tribute to Professor John T. Dunlop and his many contributions to the national housing community.For more information visit: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
or: Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University
For event details contact: Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu)
- October 25, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 24, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 23, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
2009 International Radiance Workshop
10/22/2009 - 10/23/2009 · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallThe International Radiance Workshops are annual gatherings of developers and users of the Radiance lighting simulation program. The workshop will consist of a series of presentations including case studies on the use of Radiance in lighting and/or daylighting projects, recent advances in glare detection, visual comfort and energy savings from lighting controls as well as the use of Radiance in Art and Design. At least one session will further be dedicated to technical advances that have been made within the Radiance engine over the past year. Presentations from previous workshops can be downloaded from http://www.radiance-online.org/. The full workshop registration fees will be $270. Students will be able to register at a reduced rate.
For more information visit: 2009 Radiance Workshop website
or: Radiance workshop archive
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Club MEDINA Fall Movie Series: "Caramel," Directed by Nadine Labaki
7:30pm - 9:30pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallIn Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colourful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Layale loves Rabih, but Rabih is married. Nisrine's forthcoming marriage poses a problem: she is no longer a virgin. Rima is tormented by her attraction to women and especially to this lovely client with long hair. Jamale is refusing to grow old. Rose has sacrificed her life to take care of her elderly sister. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel.
For more information visit: Caramel official film website
For event details contact: Abdulla Darrat (adarrat@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 22, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
2009 Real Estate Conference
3:00pm 10/21/2009 - 4:00pm 10/22/2009 · Charles Hotel, Ballroom and RegattabarAll current University students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the 2009 Real Estate Conference, hosted by the Real Estate Academic Initiative. Discussion topics include changes in the financial markets and lending, the state of commercial real estate usage, and recovery in the housing sector. Admission is free for current affiliates; University alumni and the general public are invited for a fee. Please visit our website for more details. Attendance is strictly limited, and pre-registration is required for all attendees.
For more information visit: 2009 Real Estate Conference Website
For event details contact: Jessica Walton (jwalton@gsd.harvard.edu)
2009 International Radiance Workshop
10/22/2009 - 10/23/2009 · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallThe International Radiance Workshops are annual gatherings of developers and users of the Radiance lighting simulation program. The workshop will consist of a series of presentations including case studies on the use of Radiance in lighting and/or daylighting projects, recent advances in glare detection, visual comfort and energy savings from lighting controls as well as the use of Radiance in Art and Design. At least one session will further be dedicated to technical advances that have been made within the Radiance engine over the past year. Presentations from previous workshops can be downloaded from http://www.radiance-online.org/. The full workshop registration fees will be $270. Students will be able to register at a reduced rate.
For more information visit: 2009 Radiance Workshop website
or: Radiance workshop archive
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 21, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Landscape Lunchbox Series: Leah Rominger, "The Montado: Portugal's Landscape of Economy, Ecology, and Regional Identity"
12:30pm - 1:30pm · Portico 123, Gund HallLeah Rominger is a third-year Masters in Landscape Architecture student, who received the Penny White Award in Spring 2009 to go to Portugal. This is talk will be a presentation on her findings in Portugal.
A light lunch will be served.For event details contact: Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu)
2009 Real Estate Conference
3:00pm 10/21/2009 - 4:00pm 10/22/2009 · Charles Hotel, Ballroom and RegattabarAll current University students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the 2009 Real Estate Conference, hosted by the Real Estate Academic Initiative. Discussion topics include changes in the financial markets and lending, the state of commercial real estate usage, and recovery in the housing sector. Admission is free for current affiliates; University alumni and the general public are invited for a fee. Please visit our website for more details. Attendance is strictly limited, and pre-registration is required for all attendees.
For more information visit: 2009 Real Estate Conference Website
For event details contact: Jessica Walton (jwalton@gsd.harvard.edu)
BSA Exploring Design Lecture Series: Janet Echelman, "Fluid Movement"
6:00pm - 7:00pm · Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, BostonCo-sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard
Credit: 1 LU/CE
Artist Janet Echelman discusses her vision for transformative public art in a lecture co-sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard University. Through her art, Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures that respond to environmental forces such as wind, water and sunlight.
This year, the artist inaugurates two major art commissions in North America. A 100-foot-tall sculpture makes the pattern of desert winds visible to the human eye and casts intricate shadow drawings onto the ground for the Phoenix Civic Space in Arizona. The Richmond Olympic Oval, an official venue for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, takes the runoff water from the building's five-acre roof and transforms it into a water garden intersected by red curved pedestrian bridges, "water-drawing" aeration fountains, and red and orange, netted "sky lanterns" that respond to the wind.
The BSA's "Exploring Design" lecture series is an annual series of presentations on architecture and the built environment illuminating the ways in which all of us shape the design of our neighborhoods and cities, and the profound impact design has on our communities and the way in which we live. This series is co-sponsored by the Boston Public Library and is held in the Library's Rabb Lecture Hall in Copley Square. Each presentation begins at 6:00 pm and is free and open to all. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that you arrive 15 minutes before the start time of each presentation.For more information visit: BSA Exploring Design Lecture Series
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Eelco Hooftman, "LAND / SCAPE / ARCHITECTURE"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallLandscape Architecture interacts in a complex continuum between man and nature, town and country, land and architecture. We no longer reconcile the duality of opposite forces but orchestrate and choreograph a multitude of dynamic and hybrid interactions. How to turn towards a new landscape architecture of sustainable optimism; a potent mix of artificial intelligence and natural instinct?
Eelco Hooftman is founding partner of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects integrates theory and practice of landscape architecture in an extensive output of (international) projects and award winning competition designs. The works of GROSS. MAX. can be summarized as combination of a British sense of humor, a Dutch sense of experiment and a German sense of rigor. Collaborations include projects with architects and artist including Zaha Hadid Architects. Current projects include a Master Plan for Royal Botanic Gardens Kew London, a 120 hectare spiritual centre for Buddhist Monks in the periphery of Tokyo and a landscape park for the Zuiderzee Museum, The Netherlands. GROSS. MAX. has been awarded the European landscape Award 2006 by Topos Magazine.For more information visit: GROSS. MAX.
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 20, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Ricky Burdett, "Cities in an Urban Age: Does Design Matter?"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallAn illustrated talk on how the physical and social fabric of world cities - Sao Paulo, London, Mumbai, Johannesburg, New York, Istanbul - is changing and the role that architecture and design can play in making cities more socially and environmentally sustainable.
Ricky Burdett is Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He is Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics and was architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. He has curated numerous exhibitions including 'Global Cities' at Tate Modern, was Director of the 2006 Architecture Biennale in Venice and chairman of the Jury for the 2007 Mies van der Rohe Prize. He is architectural adviser to the City of Genova and a member of the Milan Expo 2015 steering committee. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Art and sits on the Mayor of London's Promote London Board. Educated in Rome, Burdett lives in London with his wife and two children.For more information visit: Ricky Burdett faculty bio at LSE
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 19, 2009
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
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For event details contact: Sean Conlon (sconlon@gsd.harvard.edu)
NOW? Curating - 3 Models: The Retrospective, Historical Reinvention, and the Archive / Helen Molesworth in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
12:00pm - 2:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallHelen Molesworth is the Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary art as well as the Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museum, where she presented an exhibition of photographs by Moyra Davey and ACT UP NY: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987-1993. From 2002 to 2007 she was the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she organized the first US retrospectives of Louise Lawler and Luc Tuymans, as well as Part Object Part Sculpture which examined sculpture produced in the wake of Marcel Duchamp's erotic objects and hand made readymades of the 1960s. From 2000-2002 she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she organized Work Ethic, which traced the problem of artistic labor in post-1960s art. She is the author of numerous articles and her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. Her research areas are concentrated largely within and around the problems of feminism, the reception of Marcel Duchamp, and the socio-historical frameworks of contemporary art. She is currently at work on a major exhibition on art of the 1980s.
Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design.
NOW? is an occasional series of conversations about ideas, images, words, things, drawings, places, designs.
NOW? is also a specific temporal moment -- of thought and action -- caught between the present and possible futuresFor more information visit: Department of Modern & Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum
or: Dean Mostafavi's faculty profile at Harvard GSD
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Building the Road to Recovery: Using Transparency and Other Tools to Ensure Federal Aid Creates Jobs and Lays a Foundation for Economic Growth
5:30pm - 6:30pm · Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building 5th floor, 15 Eliot Street, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJeffrey Simon, Director, Massachusetts Office of Infrastructure Investment
Commentary by Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director, Transparency Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School and Pam Wilmot, Executive Director, Common Cause Massachusetts
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gives the state several billion dollars to create jobs now and to lay the foundation for long-term economic growth. How can the small team of state officials overseeing these efforts ensure that the money is spent quickly, efficiently, and wisely? Are there ways to harness new technologies and approaches, such as increased transparency, to accomplish all these important goals?
This event is co-sponsored by The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, The Joint Center for Housing Studies, and The Taubman Center for State and Local Government.For more information visit: Joint Center for Housing Studies event calendar
For event details contact: Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu)
CANCELED Kengo Kuma, "Anti Object"
6:30pm - 8:00pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall**NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He completed his master's degree at the University of Tokyo in 1979. From 1985 to 1986, he studied at Columbia University as Visiting Scholar. He established Kengo Kuma & Associates 1990. He taught at Keio University from 2001 to 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, and in 2009, he was installed as Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Tokyo.
Among Kuma's major works are Kirosan Observatory (1995), Water/Glass (1995, received AIA Benedictus Award), Stage in Forest, Toyoma Center for Performance Arts (received 1997 Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Award), Stone Museum (received International Stone Architecture Award 2001), Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum (received The Murano Prize). Recent works include Great Bamboo Wall (2002, Beijing, China), Nagasaki Prefectural Museum (2005, Nagasaki) and the Suntory Museum of Art (2007, Tokyo). A number of large projects are now going on in Europe and China, including an arts centre in Besancon City, France, and a development of the Sanlitun District in Beijing, China.
He was awarded the International Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award in 2002 (Finland), International Architecture Awards for the Best New Global Design for "Chokkura Plaza and Shelter" in 2007, and Energy Performance + Architectutre Award in 2008 (France), and in 2009, he was given the title d'Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, from the French Government. Kengo Kuma is also a prolific writer and his books have been translated into English, Chinese and other languages.For more information visit: Kengo Kuma & Associates
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 18, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 17, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 16, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
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For event details contact: Sean Conlon (sconlon@gsd.harvard.edu)
Landscape Lunchbox Series: Jacqueline Parish, "INFRASTRUCTURAL LANDSCAPES GENERATING NEW PUBLIC SPACES - CASE STUDY ZURICH"
12:00pm - 1:00pm · Rm 508, Gund HallJacqueline Parish, born 1972, studied landscape architecture at Heriot-Watt University, the College of Art in Edinburgh (GB) and Wageningen Agricultural University (NL). After graduation, she worked in Berlin and Zurich as a landscape architect, during which she pursued part-time postgraduate studies in spatial planning at Network City and Landscape, ETH Zurich. Until 2006 she developed and directed the Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich at the Chair of Prof. Christophe Girot. In parallel she collaborated with various architecture and design firms working on various competitions and projects. Since 2007 she is in charge of a new team within the City of Zurich for the Design of Public Spaces (Fachbereichsleiterin Gestaltung Stadtraume, Tiefbaumt Stadt Zurich) as well as teaching Theory in Landscape Architecture with guest-professor Sebastien Marot at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich.
A light lunch will be served.For event details contact: Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 15, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Technology Lecture Series: Yolande Kolstee, "Augmented Reality in Art and Design: lessons learned and lessons to learn"
12:00pm - 2:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallProf. Kolstee will discuss the co-operation of the Royal Art Academy in The Hague and University of Technology in Delft, the events in which they are participating and the domains in which they are experimenting: design, data visualization, art, architecture, interior design, cultural heritage.
Yolande Kolstee is the project leader of the AR+RFID Lab, which is a collaboration initiative of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and local companies in creative industry focusing on the development of innovative applications of emerging ubiquitous computing technologies in the field of art and design. Funded for the second time by the SIA/RAAK grant programme in 2008-2010, the AR+RFID Lab works on projects based on Augmented Reality (AR) and Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technologies. She is an officer for Innovation and Quality Care of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and is involved in the accreditation processes of both Bachelor as Master programs. She maintains contacts outside the KABK in the field of innovation and creativity.For more information visit: AR+RFID Lab
or: Royal Academy of Art, The Netherlands
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 14, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Rob Gogan, "Towards Zero Campus Waste: How Harvard can be a Zero Waste/Full Value Campus"
12:30pm - 1:30pm · Portico 121, Gund HallRob Gogan oversees recycling, surplus and trash for Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations. What's in Harvard's trash, and where does it go when it leaves the campus? What are the current procedures to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost our refuse? How can members of the GSD and greater Harvard community work with manufacturers to get full value from the human, animal and natural resources that created the products and foods we bring to campus? Rob's talk will address these questions. He is eager to get suggestions on how to improve recycling and waste reduction further on campus.
For more information visit: Interview with Rob Gogan (on The Green Guide to Harvard)
For event details contact: Julia Africa (jkafrica@gmail.com)
GSD PhD Talks: Ulrich Beck, "Methodological Cosmopolitanism: Imagined Communities of Global Risk"
6:00pm - 8:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallThis event is sponsored by GSD PhD Talks -- a seminar series organized by the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Harvard University.
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich, and the British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 1997. Ulrich Beck is editor of Soziale Welt, editor of the Edition Second Modernity at Suhrkamp (Frankfurt a. Main). His interests focus on 'risk society', 'globalization', 'individualization', 'reflexive modernization' and 'cosmopolitanism'. He is founding director of a research centre at the University of Munich (in cooperation with four other universities in the area) - Reflexive Modernization -, financed since 1999 by the DFG (German Research Society). Cambridge University offered Ulrich Beck the Chair of Sociology (2005), which he rejected in order to stay at Munich and the LSE.
Among his books are: Risk Society (1992); Reflexive Modernization (with Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash) (1994); The Reinvention of Politics (1997); Power in the Global Age (2005); The Cosmopolitan Vision (2006); The Cosmopolitan Europe (2007, with Edgar Grande); World Risk Society (2008); World at Risk (2008). His books have been translated into 35 languages.For event details contact: Sai Balakrishnan (sbalakr@fas.harvard.edu)
Julia Czerniak, "Doing More with Less"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium, Gund HallJULIA CZERNIAK is the inaugural Director of UPSTATE: a design research and advocacy organization housed within the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. The mission of this center, since its inception in 2005, is to engage innovative design and development practices, addressing critical issues of urban revitalization in the Upstate, New York region. The center initiates, facilitates, and showcases projects that apply innovative, experimental design research to challenges faced by real-world communities. UPSTATE: actively seeks collaborators and partners in the academic, non-profit, private, and public sectors, acting as a resource and advisor for local and regional policymakers on design issues.
Czerniak is also a registered landscape architect and is founder of CLEAR, an interdisciplinary design practice located in Syracuse, NY. Czerniak's design work focuses on urban landscapes in Rust-Belt cities, and it has been recognized with numerous awards: most recently, her collaborations with Field Operations won the Syracuse Connective Corridor competition; with Marpillero Pollak Architects, she won the artNET Public Art Landscape Design Competition in Toledo, Ohio; and with COLAB, she was one of the winners for the Charm Bracelet project in Pittsburgh, PA. She was also a winner of the 2001 Young Architects Forum competition sponsored by The Architectural League of New York. Her design work for this venue is included in the book Second Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).
Her work as designer is complemented by a body of writing. Czerniak is editor of two books, Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) and Case: Downsview Park Toronto (Prestel and Harvard Design School, 2001), that focus on contemporary design approaches to public parks and the relationship between landscape and cities. Other writings include essays in Landscape Alchemy: The Work of Hargreaves Associates (ORO Editions, Fall 2009); Fertilizers: Olin Eisenman (Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006); Landscape Urbanism, Charles Waldheim, ed. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006); Assemblage 34 (MIT Press, 1998) and Harvard Design Review. Czerniak has exhibited at the Architectural League, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies, the Van Alen Institute, Castle Gallery, Galleria Frau, and Gallery Joe. She lectures widely.For more information visit: Julia Czerniak's faculty profile at Syracuse University
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 13, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
RISK and the CITY: The Case of Istanbul Workshop
Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund HallPresented by The Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Bilgi University, Istanbul and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
The city is increasingly under threat of disaster. Whether natural, environmental, or security related, these hazards have been magnified in public perception to the point where risk management now plays a determining role in shaping urban policy and guiding decisions about infrastructure and urban development. Benefiting from the visit of Prof. Ulrich Beck to Harvard GSD under the auspices of the Loeb Fellowship, the workshop aims to extend this discussion to address the impact of risk on public spaces and urban architecture.
The workshop will examine the history of the relationship between disaster prevention, disaster relief and the city. It will look at case studies in the contemporary world, in Japan in particular, before focusing on the main case of Istanbul, a city that is undergoing major rehabilitation of its infrastructure and its inner quarters in face of the threat of earthquakes. The Istanbul case will be illustrated and critically analyzed through historical and contemporary examples.
10:00 AM: Introductory Remarks
Hashim Sarkis (Harvard GSD)
Ulrich Beck (University of Munich and London School of Economics)
Jennifer Leaning (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative)
11:30 AM: Lessons from Japan: Tokyo and Kobe
Miho Mazereeuw (MIT)
Osamu Murao (University of Tsukuba)
Moderated by Hashim Sarkis
3:00 PM: Historical Istanbul
Gulru Necipoglu (Harvard FAS)
Sibel Bozdogan (Harvard GSD and Bilgi University, Istanbul)
Moderated by James Wescoat (MIT) and Han Tumertekin (Bilgi University, Istanbul)
4:30 PM: Contemporary Istanbul
Mikdat Kadioglu (Istanbul Technical University)
Neyran Turan (Rice University)
Moderated by James Wescoat and Han Tumertekin
Followed by a reception at 6:00 PM.
This event is free and open to the public - no registration is required.For more information visit: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Fierce Pussy Artist Collective Exhibition
10/13/2009 - 10/31/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryThis event is co-sponsored by the student groups Women in Design and OutDesign, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Women's Center at Harvard College.
Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Shared Legacies, Diverging Systems: Post-Colonial Approaches To Land, Housing and Planning In Ireland and Massachusetts
12:00pm - 1:00pm · Portico 123, Gund HallKaren Keaveney, Lecturer in Spatial Planning, SPACE Erasmus Programme Director, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE), Queen's University Belfast
For more information visit: Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University
For event details contact: Angela Flynn (aflynn@gsd.harvard.edu)
Lunch discussion with Fierce Pussy Artist Collective
12:00pm - 1:00pm · Rm 110 (Pit), Gund HallOutdesign and Women in Design invite Fierce P to take a break from installing their latest work "Gutter" (on view in Gund Lobby as part of a series of installations around the Harvard campus). Please join us for an open lunch discussion of public art, activism, queer identity, and the city. All are welcome!
(Lunch will be provided.)
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Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women dedicated to creating public art and direct action addressing issues of lesbian identity and visibility. They will be coming to Harvard as part of the Harvard Art Museum exhibition "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" and will take part in several events around Harvard.
Emerging in 1991 through its members' immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, Fierce Pussy brought lesbian identity directly into the streets. Calibrating the visual language of their art to the urgency of those years, the collective's art production relied on modest and readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, its members' own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs. Lo-tech, low budget, and ubiquitous, Fierce Pussy's wheatpasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers peppered New York City through the early 1990s. In other actions, the collective used stencils and spray paint to rename New York City streets after prominent lesbian heroines, and engaged in an iconoclastic greeting card campaign directed at Cardinal O'Connor and Senator D'Amato.
Most active between 1991 and 1995, Fierce Pussy has reconvened in recent years to create new works that reframe the collective's vital message for the present moment. During their residency, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka will work with students to develop visual material addressing issues of gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. Fierce Pussy's residency will also offer an unusual opportunity for students to learn strategies for radical political organizing and collective art production from some of the most experienced and influential women artist-activists at work today.For more information visit: Carpenter Center Exhibition: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993"
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 12, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
Columbus Day - classes at discretion of instructor, offices closed
For event details contact: Sean Conlon (sconlon@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 11, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 10, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
- October 9, 2009
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition
8/26/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryJapanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.For more information visit: GSD Exhibitions
or: Download the press release (pdf)
For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)
The Life and Work of Max Bond Exhibition
9/14/2009 - 10/18/2009 · Gund Hall GalleryHarvard Graduate School of Design honors Max Bond, MArch '58, Partner at Davis Brody Bond, who passed away in February.
Check back soon for more information.For event details contact: Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu)