Mitchell Joachim MAUD '02 and Maria Aiolova MAUD '02 were among the winners of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award sponsored by The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
Several students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design spent two months in northeastern Japan over the summer, bringing their expertise to bear on a region still reeling from an earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. Before heading overseas, they researched participatory design and other concepts.
Amidst a rising chorus of anti-participation rhetoric, Assistant Professor Michael Hooper extolls the benefits of civic engagement in urban planning.
Theaster Gates (LF '11) was recently appointed to a new role at the University of Chicago as the Director of Art and Public Life. See the announcement.
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