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Fierce Pussy Artist Collective ExhibitionThrough 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)
- Monday, October 26
- 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
The 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)
- Tuesday, October 27
- Iwan Baan, "Architectural Photography and The Decisive Moment"6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium
Iwan 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)
- Wednesday, October 28
- Landscape Lunchbox Series: Chris Reed, "Beyond Landscape"12:30pm - 1:30pm · Portico 123
Chris 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
Professor 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)
- Thursday, October 29
- NOW? Ideas on the Art, Science & Design of Taste / David Edwards in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi12:00pm - 2:00pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins)
David 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)
- Friday, October 30
- ADD+ ARQUITECTURA_bailo+rull_BARCELONA5:00pm - 6:30pm · Rm 112 (Stubbins)
European 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)