Andreina Seijas charts the emergence of the “night mayor”—an advocate, mediator, and policy-maker for a city’s nocturnal life
Cities don’t close when mayors sign out of their email accounts and City Hall turns…
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,…
Summer Scholarship at the GSD: Student Emergency Fund provides students with opportunities during quarantine
Existing Section and Proposed Interventions for an Agricultural Campus for La Carboncella, by Nicolás Delgado…
Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?
“For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned…
An Anti-Racist Reading List: Five Essential Titles for Designers
How can design contribute to the fight against racism? As a place to start, the…
Design in a Frame of Emotion
Design in a Frame of Emotion Hannah Beachler with Jacqueline Stewart and…
Excerpt: Up From the Basement: The Artist and the Making of the Just City, by Theaster Gates
“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…
2020 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Margaret Haltom’s “The Next Southern Landmark: A Roadmap to Confederate Monument Redesigns and RFP for the Site of a Former White Supremacist Statue”
by Margaret Haltom (MUP '20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
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…
GSD Radio: Broadcasting Black Voices Daily at 8:30 PM EDT
Daily at 8:30pm we will be broadcasting a Black voice: a speech, interview, lecture, or…
We the Publics: A manifesto to restore democracy and truth in the Republic
“We the Publics…” is a provocation, a proclamation, and a call for participatory action “We the Publics…” is a reflexive search for clarity that offers a space for individual and collective reflection in a time of ever-increasing noise and distraction “We the Publics…” creates a…
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,…
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…
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…
Restoration ecologist David Moreno Mateos on mending our broken relationship with the natural world
In the first week of March, Australia’s New South Wales announced itself free of bushfires…
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…
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…
Covid-19: Guidance for the Harvard Graduate School of Design Community
The health, safety, and well-being of our community, on and off campus, is our top…