For information about events, please contact:
Loeb Fellowship Phone: 617.495.9345 or 617.384.8387
E-Mail: loeb_fellowship@gsd.harvard.edu
Past Fellowship Events
Presentations by the 2009 - 2010 Loeb Fellows
Location: Stubbins, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
For information contact:
Sally Young at 617.495.9345 or syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Place Makers: Planning and developing the City
Gil Kelley, planner, former Director of Planning, Portland, OR
Weiwen Huang, Director, Department of Urban & Architecture Design, Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau, Shenzhen, China
Neal Morris, Developer, New OrleansTuesday, September 15, 2009, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Place Makers: Protecting the environment
Julie Campoli, Landscape Architect and author, Burlington, VT
Rob Bleiberg, Executive Director, Mesa Land Trust, Grand Junction, COWednesday, September 16, 2009, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Place Makers: Designing through political engagement
Peter Steinbrueck, architect, former City Councilor, Seattle
Jose de Filippi, engineer, former Mayor, Diadema, BrazilThursday, September 17, 2009, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Place Makers: Telling the story, engaging the history
Michael Creasey, Superintendant, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA
Donna Graves, Arts and cultural heritage consultant and urban historian, San Francisco
Patricia Leigh Brown, Contributing writer New York Times and Architectural Digest, San Francisco
Learning from Bhutan: Preservation, Heritage and
Sustainability
A Presentation by Dorji Yangki, LF 09, Chief Architect and Head of
the Division for Conservation of Heritage Sites at the Department of Culture
for Bhutan
Monday, June 15, 2009, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington DC
Annual Loeb Lecture -
“Where the Revolution Began: Lawrence and Anna Halprin and the
Reinvention of Public Space”
Friday, May 1, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA
Speaker: Randy Gragg,
LF 06
Between 1963 and '70, Lawrence Halprin designed a series of fountain
plazas in downtown Portland, Oregon that forever changed public space design
in the U.S. Merging water, sculpture and theater, they provided something
rarely seen since the renaissance: urban places for civic play. Writer/editor
Randy Gragg explore both the designs' origins in the era's activist
politics and in the highly experimental danceworks of Halprin's wife, choreographer
Anna Halprin. And he will present excerpts from a series of recent performances
that, in the same radical spirit of the Halprins, used dance and music
to foster the plazas' preservation.
An opening reception will follow in Gund Hall lobby for "The Allston Corridor", an exhibit by current fellows, Jim Brown and Rob Lane.
Mapping/Networks
Exploring the intersection of media, public process and design
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Stubbins Room 112, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Open to the Public
Presentations and Panel Discussion moderated by Rob Lane,
LF 09
Presenters include:
Peter Hall, University of Texas, Austin, co-editor Else/Where:
Mapping - New Cartographie
Laura Kurgan, Director Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia
Univessity
Ceasar McDowell, Professor of the Practice of Community Development,
in the Center for Reflective Community Practice in the Department of Urban Studies
and Planning at MIT
In what innovative ways can publically accessible information
technologies be harnessed to support community-based planning and design?
Sophisticated visualization tools have had limited impact on
community-based planning for reasons of cost, complexity and lack of transparency,
especially when real-time interactions with the public are important. How
can we enable new levels of empowerment and participation in community-based
planning and design by exploiting the public’s growing access to a broad
array of media such as Wiki, Google Earth, Flickr, Second Life and Face Book?
London’s Changing Ecological Footprint: Sustainable Development
Initiatives
A Presentation by Camilla Ween, LF 08, Urban Designer, Transport
for London
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Portico Room 123, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by UPD and the Loeb Fellowship
Camilla will discuss innovative measures London is exploring as part
of its sustainable development objectives to meet 60% reduction in emissions
by 2025. She will include: sustainable housing initiatives, sustainable
travel, decentralized energy, waste and recycling, open space and biodiversity.
She will present London’s ambitious policies and some lessons for the
USA. This work is based on research for a book, Green European Cities
- Lessons for USA, to be published by the University of Virginia.
HighWaterLine: Visualizing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Our
Cities: Eve Mosher’s Installation in Manhattan
Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA
The focus of the event will be a presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project,
High Water Line (http://www.highwaterline.org/),
which visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities. A panel of three
-- a scientist, a critic and a designer -- will then respond to her presentation,
informing their responses according to their various expertise. Ed
Morris, Loeb Fellow from the Canary Project, LF 09, will serve as moderator. The panel will
include Katherine Parsons, who has taught in the Landscape Architecture department
at the GSD, and is a scientist at the Manomet Institute, and Bill Fox, a writer
and critic based in Nevada with a focus on land art. The event is co-sponsored
by GSD student groups LandGSD and Green Design, the Loeb Fellowship and the Center
for the Environment.
Sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship
Cities and Climate Change: A talk by Heather Tremain, Lincoln/Loeb
Fellow 2009
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 113 Brattle Street,
Cambridge MA
Sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship
Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
A presentation and conversation with Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court. Albie will present the art of the court on the occasion of the launch of this new book. Mr. Sachs was instrumental in amassing and commissioning the art for the court and the story he tells is both intimate and compelling.
Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design,
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard’s Graduate School of
Design. Reception to Follow
COVER
Annual Loeb Alumni Lecture
Friday, May 2, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA
Toni Griffin, LF 98, Director of Community Development
at Newark Department of Economic & Housing Development, will give the
Annual Loeb Lecture "Newark Shifting Forward 2025"
Reception at 7:00 PM in Gund Hall lobby
Opening of new Elevator Wall exhibit, "Bringing dirt back to life: The Harvard
Yard Soils Restoration Project", coordinated by T Fleisher, LF 08 and
designed by Adrienne Heflich, MLA I ‘09. This exhibit illustrates a pilot project,
begun in March 2008, to grow a 1-acre test plot 100% organically (see SOILS).
Other participants in this project include: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates,
Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations, FAS Physical Resources, Harvard Green
Campus Initiative, Peter Del Tredici and Treewise.
Museums, Art and Alzheimer's: New Insights; A New Frontier
A Conversation with John Zeisel, PhD,
LF 71, President and
Founder of Hearthstone Alzheimer's Foundation, ARTZ: Artists
for Altzheimer's
Tuesday, May 20, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Location: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC
THE ART WORLD IS FLAT, a lecture by Jennifer Siegel, LF 03, Principal
of Mobile Design
Globalism—Crisis and Opportunity
April 26 to 27, 2009
Location: Jay Pritzker Pavilion,
Millennium Park,
Chicago
http://symposiumc6.com
Join participants from three recent Ivy League symposia in a public
discourse on the subject of Race and Architecture.
Organized by Steve Lewis, LF 07
Monday, April 30, 2008,
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location:
Room 111, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design,
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
“LIQUID CITY”, Case studies on water and sustainability, the work of Andreas Wolf, LF 07
Wednesday, May 2, 2009, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 510, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design,
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, May 5th -
9AM - 3 PM Loeb Fellowship Annual Alumni Council
Meeting for
class officers, representatives, alternates and staff only.
6 PM - Dinner
at Doebele House for alumni and current class.
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Soul of Place - 36th Loeb Fellowship ReunionThursday, May 4th - Sunday, May 7th, 2006
The Loeb Fellowship 36th Reunion Symposium explored the Soul of Place from a wide range of perspectives - from the perspective of arts and culture to economics. On the second day Loeb Fellows shared information about the work they are doing on Gulf Coast Recovery efforts and how issues of place emerge. |