Making Next to Forest: Toshiko Mori’s studio demonstrates how design decisions relate to natural-resource use and protection
The argument that forests should remain untouched by human beings poses counterintuitive but considerable risks.
Cooking Sections’ Salmon: A Red Herring: Are our ideas about color and nature based on fundamental misconceptions?
How do you like your salmon? If you prefer the natural look, that’s fine—there’s a…
Sacred Groves and Secret Parks: A two-day colloquium focused on the landscapes of Orisha
Princess Faniyi in front of Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Photo: Moisés…
L. Blount (MLA ’17) is changing how we envision the natural landscape—and how people of color are depicted within it
Although she graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design Master in Landscape Architecture program…
Sacred Groves and Secret Parks: An interview with Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi and Moises Lino e Silva
The Graduate School of Design’s colloquium “Sacred Groves and Secret Parks”…
The Architecture of Waste: Can designers challenge fundamental presumptions about waste and the economic models that make it necessary?
A linear economy conceives of waste as an end. It presumes that refuse cast off,…
The Ugliest Building in Washington: Students navigate federal pressures and local values in rethinking FBI site
In late July 2020, Congress could not reach a compromise on a new coronavirus relief…
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…
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: Francisco Brown (MDes Critical Conservation ’20)
Hometown Managua, Nicaragua Prior Degree Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY: Master’s in Architecture…
Student Q+A: Aeshna Prasad (MAUD ’21)
Hometown Mumbai, India Undergraduate School and Major NMIMS’s Balwant Sheth School of…
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,”…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…