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Through 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)
Luminosity I
Through 11/29/2009 Gund Hall GalleryPhotography exhibition by Richard B. Peiser,
Michael D.Spear Professor of Real Estate Development
Curated by John R. Stilgoe,
Robert & Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Harvard University
Produced by Douglas CoggerFor event details contact: Richard Peiser (rpeiser@gsd.harvard.edu)
Upcoming
- November 30, 2009
Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: Boston Neighborhoods--Planning Challenges
12:00pm - 1:00pm · Portico 121Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Evelyn Friedman, Chief of Housing and Director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston
Sponsored by the 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)
- December 1, 2009
HOK/Bill Valentine Lecture in Sustainable Design: Janine Benyus, "Borrowing Nature's Blueprints: Biomimicry and The Art of Well-Adapted Design"
6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper AuditoriumBiomimicry is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies--new ways of living--that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul. Biomimics around the world are learning to grow food like a prairie, cool buildings like a termite, harness energy like a leaf, create color like a peacock, compute like a cell, and run a business like a redwood forest. These bio-inspired designs are elegant, functional, and life sustaining. Besides helping our species earn a longer stay on the planet, biomimicry has the potential to change the way we view and value non-human nature. It encourages us to view nature not as a source of goods, but as a mentor, a source of wisdom.
In this special tribute to Bill Valentine, Janine Benyus, the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, will highlight the Biomimicry Guild's exciting alliance with HOK, which has embraced biomimicry as one of the most important tools used by their designers to create built environments in partnership with nature.For more information visit: Biomimicry Guild
For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
- December 2, 2009
Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Raghuram Rajan, "Fault Lines: Repairing the Cracks in the Global Economy"
5:00pm - 7:00pm · Piper AuditoriumRaghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Panelists
Suzanne Berger, Political Science, MIT
Frank Dobbin, Sociology, Harvard
Niall Ferguson, History, Harvard
Moderated by
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School
Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions.
Organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Design, and Harvard University Center for the EnvironmentFor more information visit: Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University
For event details contact: Lisa Matthews (lisa_matthews@harvard.edu)
- December 9, 2009
Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges
12:00pm - 1:00pm · Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Taubman Building, Nye CBrown Bag Lunch Discussion
Bruce Marks, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
Sponsored by the 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)