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Events at the GSD
- Ongoing
- Tuesday, November 3
Margaret McCurry Lecture in the Design Arts: Patrick Blanc, "The Vertical Garden, From Nature to the City"6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper AuditoriumThe 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)
- Wednesday, November 4
- Landscape Lunchbox Series: Pierre Belanger, "Maasvlakte 2100"12:30pm - 1:30pm · Portico 121
Projecting 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: Homelessness1:00pm - 2:00pm · Harvard Kennedy School, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 160
Brown 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)
- Thursday, November 5
- BalletGSD Film Screenings: "Pulcinella" and "Ballet Mecanique"6:30pm - 8:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins)
"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)
- Friday, November 6
- GSD Admissions Open HouseGSD First Floor
Open 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
KOYAANISQATSI, 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)
- Saturday, November 7
- Preparing Urban Planners and Urban Designers for Our Urban Age: A Colloquium at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design9:00am - 3:30pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins)
The 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)