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Events at the GSD

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- Platform GSD 09
  
  The 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)
  
  Through 12/20/2009 Gund Hall Gallery
- Luminosity I
  
  Photography 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 Cogger
  
  For event details contact: Richard Peiser (rpeiser@gsd.harvard.edu)
  
  Through 11/29/2009 Gund Hall Gallery

Monday, November 30
- POSTPONED: Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: Boston Neighborhoods--Planning Challenges
  
  Brown 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)
  
  12:00pm - 1:00pm · Portico 121

Tuesday, December 1
- HOK/Bill Valentine Lecture in Sustainable Design: Janine Benyus, "Borrowing Nature's Blueprints: Biomimicry and The Art of Well-Adapted Design"
  
  Biomimicry 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)
  
  6:30pm - 7:30pm · Piper Auditorium

Wednesday, December 2
- Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Raghuram Rajan, "Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy"
  
  Raghuram 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 Environment
  
  For more information visit: Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University
  
  For event details contact: Lisa Matthews (lisa_matthews@harvard.edu)
  
  5:00pm - 7:00pm · Piper Auditorium

Friday, December 4
- Platform GSD 09 Exhibition Opening and Book Launch
  
  A reception to celebrate the Platform GSD 09 exhibition and the launch of the accompanying book!
  
  About the book
  Platform 02 provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008-2009 academic year. Organized thematically, the publication identifies underlying congruencies among studio work, theses, research, lectures, conferences, and writings to unfold some of the many critical ideas and interests currently being explored in the School. Ranging in scope from detailed material fabrication to large-scale territorial and infrastructural strategies, the work spans a broad and diverse set of geographies and scenarios. In documenting this work, the publication archives and disseminates the rich intellectual momentum of the GSD.
  
  For more information visit: Platform GSD 09 Exhibition
  or: Platform GSD 2 Book
  
  For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
  
  6:30pm - 8:00pm · Lobby

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Events at the GSD

Platform GSD 09

Luminosity I

POSTPONED: Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: Boston Neighborhoods--Planning Challenges

HOK/Bill Valentine Lecture in Sustainable Design: Janine Benyus, "Borrowing Nature's Blueprints: Biomimicry and The Art of Well-Adapted Design"

Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Raghuram Rajan, "Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy"

Platform GSD 09 Exhibition Opening and Book Launch