Fantasy, Memory, & Longing: Robin Winogrond leads designers on a search for the poetic in banal landscapes
The strange and unexpected are disappearing from our towns and cities. In Europe and America…
Harvard GSD announces Spring 2020 public program
Harvard GSD opens its spring 2020 public program on February 4, with an inside…
Elizabeth Hoover, “Seed Sovereignty and ‘Our Living Relatives’ in Native American Community Farming and Gardening”
Native heirloom seed varieties, many of which have been passed down…
Work in Progress: William Smith’s Model of a Model of a Model
William Smith (MArch II ’20) describes his final project for the option…
First the Forests
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…
Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration
To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…
The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
The Collective Amnesia of Sugar Land: Unearthing a link between mass incarceration and slavery
In early 2018, the remains of 95 people were found in Sugar Land, Texas, as…
Further Reading: John May’s Signal. Image. Architecture
In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…