http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/calendar Events from November 7, 2009 to December 7, 2009 en-us Copyright 2009 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:48:46 +0500 Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:48:46 +0500 Harvard Design School Events Calendar www.gsd.harvard.edu http://www.gsd.harvard.edu webmaster@gsd.harvard.edu webmaster@gsd.harvard.edu http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025795 11/2/2009 Mon 12:00am 12/20/2009 Sun 12:00am Gund Hall Gallery Further description on the Current Exhibitions page]]> Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025455 11/2/2009 Mon 12:00am 1/10/2010 Sun 12:00am Gund Hall Gallery Shannon Stecher (sstecher@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025695 11/7/2009 Sat 9:00am 11/7/2009 Sat 3:30pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall 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-up]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025615 11/8/2009 Sun 6:30pm 11/8/2009 Sun 8:00pm The Laboratory, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA The Laboratory at Harvard official site]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025219 11/10/2009 Tue 12:00pm 11/10/2009 Tue 1:00pm Rm 109, Gund Hall Joint Center for Housing Studies event calendar]]> Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024398 11/10/2009 Tue 6:30pm 11/10/2009 Tue 7:30pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024797 11/12/2009 Thu 12:00pm 11/12/2009 Thu 2:00pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Abstract Can machines think about themselves? One of the most unique and fascinating aspects of intelligent living systems is their ability to self-reflect: To reconstruct models of their own morphology and of their own behavior, then use those models to adapt to new circumstances. Processes such as self-reflection play a key role in accelerating adaptation by reducing costs of physical trial and error. Similarly, the ability of a machine to observe and reconstruct models of the morphology and behavior of other systems is key to effective cooperation and competition. Despite its importance, however, most current systems can learn and adapt directly but have no second-order ability to reflect. This talk will demonstrate a number of experiments in self reflecting robotic system, and argue that reflective processes are essential in achieving meta-cognitive capacities such as theory-of-mind, consciousness and ultimately self-awareness. Biography Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such as evolutionary robotics, multi-material functional rapid prototyping, machine self-replication and programmable self-assembly. Lipson received his Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1998, and continued to a postdoc at Brandeis University and MIT. His research focuses primarily on biologically-inspired approaches, as they bring new ideas to engineering and new engineering insights into biology. ]]> Prof. Lipson's Cornell University faculty profile]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025555 11/12/2009 Thu 4:00pm 11/12/2009 Thu 5:30pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025535 11/12/2009 Thu 6:30pm 11/12/2009 Thu 7:30pm The Harvard Club of New York, 35 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape. For decades, he has driven around the United States photographing regions and constituent elements for his courses on the history of the American built environment. In the past eight years, he has been working on alternative futures; Train Time is the first book in a series about the ways the national landscape will almost certainly evolve, given existing physical constraints. The lecture is free and open to all GSD alumni. To reserve a space, please contact Abby Suckle, Program Committee, at info@abbysuckle.com. ]]> Abby Suckle (info@abbysuckle.com) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025575 11/12/2009 Thu 6:30pm 11/12/2009 Thu 8:30pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Paisajes Emergentes website]]> Blog post]]> Pedro SantaRivera (psantari@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024555 11/13/2009 Fri 12:30pm 11/13/2009 Fri 1:30pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall This event is a part of the university-wide Harvard Arab Weekend 2009, for more information on the conference go to: http://www.harvardmena.org]]> Harvard Arab Weekend at Harvard University]]> Abdulla Darrat (adarrat@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025416 11/13/2009 Fri 7:30pm 11/13/2009 Fri 9:30pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall A Door To The Sky is a Sufi tale told in a metaphoric language. It is also the first North African film to address the social and economic changes as proposed by a spiritual Muslim woman on a quest to preserve her cultural and religious identity.]]> Abdulla Darrat (adarrat@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024656 11/14/2009 Sat 10:00am 11/14/2009 Sat 6:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Speakers: - Marcel Meili (Meili Peter Architects / ETH Zurich Studio Basel) - Ines Lamuniere (dl-a / EPF Lausanne) - Dieter Dietz (UNDEND / EPF Lausanne) - Harry Gugger (Herzog & de Meuron / EPF Lausanne) - Daniel Niggli (EM2N / ETH Zurich) Respondents: - Danieller Etzler (SHoP Architects NYC / Harvard GSD) - Mark Jarzombek (MIT HTC) - Michael Meredith (MOS / Harvard GSD) - Ingeborg Rocker (Rocker-Lange Architects / Harvard GSD) - A. Hashim Sarkis (Hashim Sarkis / Harvard GSD) Organization, Introduction and Moderation: Elli Mosayebi (EMI / ETH Zurich) & Ole W. Fischer (O.W. Fischer / Harvard GSD/RISD) Free and open to the public! RSVP: swissarchsymposium@gsd.harvard.edu Thanks to the support of the ProHelvetia Foundation Bern, Swissnex Boston, and to Harvard GSD, Harvard European Design Circle and GSD Culture Club.]]> Download symposium poster (pdf)]]> Ole Fischer (swissarchsymposium@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024278 11/17/2009 Tue 6:30pm 11/17/2009 Tue 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Harvard Symposia on Architecture, an annual series of events which brings together architects, historians and theorists to consider the question of architecture's autonomy in relation to contemporary debates. The Return of Nature: The Sublime Plan Participants: Barry Bergdoll is Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA. Author of such books as European Architecture 1750-1890 (2000) and Leon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry (1994), his exhibitions include Mies in Berlin (2001) and the forthcoming Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity. K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the GSD, where he is Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD and DDes). His books include the forthcoming Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde and Sanctuaries, the Last Works of John Hejduk (2002). In 2008, he co-curated with Dana Miller Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe at the Whitney Museum. Diane Lewis, Professor of Design at the Cooper Union School of Architecture and Rome Prize recipient, founded Diane Lewis Architect in 1982. Her work is internationally recognized, and includes commissions for the New York Studio School, the NYU School of Law and Givenchy. Diane Lewis: Inside-Out Architecture New York City was published in 2006.]]> Full description of Return of Nature series (pdf)]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024415 11/18/2009 Wed 6:30pm 11/18/2009 Wed 7:30pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Niall Kirkwood GSD faculty profile]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024796 11/19/2009 Thu 12:00pm 11/19/2009 Thu 2:00pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Smart Materials and Technologies for Architecture. Before coming to Yale, Addington taught at Harvard University for ten years, and was an engineer and manager at Dupont and at NASA. She received her D.Des and MDesS from Harvard University, B.Arch from Temple University and BSME from Tulane University.]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025475 11/19/2009 Thu 6:30pm 11/19/2009 Thu 7:30pm Portico 123, Gund Hall Dido Tsigaridi (dtsigari@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025275 11/20/2009 Fri 12:00pm 11/20/2009 Fri 1:00pm Location TBA Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025220 11/30/2009 Mon 12:00pm 11/30/2009 Mon 1:00pm Portico 121, Gund Hall Joint Center for Housing Studies event calendar]]> Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024755 12/1/2009 Tue 6:30pm 12/1/2009 Tue 7:30pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 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.]]> Biomimicry Guild]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1024675 12/2/2009 Wed 5:00pm 12/2/2009 Wed 6:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 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 Environment]]> Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University]]> Lisa Matthews (lisa_matthews@harvard.edu)