A Guidebook to an Empty Land: When the Indonesian government relocates its capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, will Indigenous life there be erased?
“When an area is empty, there’s a desire to fill it in—it’s the colonizing mindset,”…
Sudan’s COVID Response, Empowering Migrant Latinx Women, and “Happy Accidents”: Student Emergency Fund continues advancing research
The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Student Emergency Fund (SEF) was established in March…
The Right to Sewage: Agriculture, climate change, and the growing need for cities to embrace wastewater reuse
Epidemiological Soils. Drawing by Chelsea Kashan, Santiago Mota, and Seth Denizen. An immense pipe connects…
From an Autosimulacrum to a new Transitopia, 2019-20 Irving Innovation Fellows share their post-graduate research
Each year since 2016, the Irving Innovation Fellowship has enabled recent Harvard Graduate School of…
A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally
Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…
“downlifting”
by Erik Fichter (MArch I AP '22) “downlifting” addresses urban densification, instantiating the relationship between…
Redlining, Green Books, Gray Towns, High Yellow: Artist Amanda Williams on the relationship between color, race, space and value
Architect and artist Amanda Williams is best known for her bold public art project,…
Student Q&A: Aisha Densmore-Bey (DDes)
Hometowns Hartford, CT & Boston, MA Prior Degrees Florida A&M University: Bachelor…
Work in Progress: Edgar Rodriguez’s Cross-Laminated Timber Experiments
Edgar Rodriguez (MArch '20) describes his final project for the option studio…
Diane Davis on the GSD’s Risk and Resilience track: “As we face the global virus pandemic, our mission appears ever more important.”
In these tough times, when dystopian fears loom large and the design professions…
Stephen F. Gray: “We have a name for the uneven distribution of exposure and risk along racial lines, and it’s not COVID-19. It’s structural racism.”
COVID-19 is a dangerous new reality, spreading indiscriminately and without regard for skin color or…
Student Q&A: Steven Gu (MUP ’21)
Hometown Philadelphia, PA Undergraduate School and Major…
Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”
Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…
Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”
A 1908 illustration from the Virginia Health Bulletin shows urban diseases threatening the bucolic conditions…
Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab
The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…
First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design
The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology,…
The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing
Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…