Projected on the facade of Gund Hall, GRASSROOTS asks the viewer to consider their own passions, histories, relationships, and voice. The questions focus on conceptions of roots, rootedness, care, support, needs, and change, which are all essential to grassroots action…
Four films highlight student work from Farshid Moussavi‘s Fall 2020 course, Dual-Use: The function of a 21st century urban residential block. From “Mutating Threshold” by Dan Lu Mutating Threshold Home is commonly perceived as the limit between public and private, collective…
The formation of geopolitical borders has become more pronounced and salient in recent months. The pandemic has been used as a justification by nations to advance anti-migrant policies, and the agenda has been pushed to extremes, leaving people stratified, deported, denied visas, or kept…
AUTUMN + SUMMER : The Clark Art Institute As a year-long collaboration with Reed Hilderbrand, this film explores the variable seasonal changes of the Clark Art Institute’s reconfigured 140-acre campus located…
The Bauhaus film experimentalist Hans Richter (1888-1976) raised the flat superposition and kinetic orchestration of simple forms to a strange gestalt art form. We propose an homage of sorts to Hans, adopting Richter’s graphic vocabulary…
During voting cycles, Gund Hall transforms into the polling station for Ward-Precinct 7-3 in the City of Cambridge. Typically, the Harvard Graduate School of Design sets up a small area within Gund, and voting booths are packed tightly and the life of the school continues…
Message From the Dean Each year, we celebrate the achievements of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s graduating class by organizing an exhibition of their work. In the space of a physical exhibition, it is only possible to provide a glimpse of the excellent…
The first online gallery of thesis work from the Harvard Graduate School of Design showcases projects by 2020 graduating students. View the gallery…
This exhibition explores the complex and intertwined layers of knowledge—sciences, history, aesthetics, and material culture—that are embedded in the seemingly simple undertaking of planting, whether a large forest, an urban park, or a garden. It does so through documenting the creative process of the…
In this exhibition, patterns of urban and territorial infrastructure (electrical power) are re-considered as metabolic processes in order to develop a strategic framework for the re-wiring of these networks of production, distribution, and consumption in relation to the assembly of the city…