The Harvard GSD presents its series of public programs for the Spring 2022 semester. The program features designers, artists, theorists, policy makers, and others from across the design disciplines. Highlights include a visit by this year’s Senior Loeb Scholar and founder and director of the African Futures Institute, Lesley Lokko (March 1), as well as Marcia Fudge, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, who will deliver this year’s John T. Dunlop Lecture (February 8). The Spring 2022 public program also introduces Harvard Design Magazine #50: “Today’s Global” (April 19) as well as the inaugural Jacqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture, featuring architect and Pritzker Prize winner Anne Lacaton (March 28).
All are invited to participate online in this semester’s series of programs. Harvard ID holders are welcome to attend programs in person, except where an event is listed as *Virtual. All times are listed in United States Eastern Time (ET). Please visit Harvard GSD’s events calendar for current information.
Live captioning will be provided for all programs. To request other accessibility accommodations, please contact the Public Programs Office.
Spring 2022 Public Program
John T. Dunlop Lecture: The Honorable Marcia L. Fudge
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
February 8, 6:30pm
John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Anthony Titus, “Rupture and Reconciliations”
February 17, 6:30pm
Small Infrastructures
Symposium with UC Berkeley Architecture
February 23, 9:00pm
*Virtual
Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Lesley Lokko
March 1, 6:30pm
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Mariam Kamara
March 7, 12:30pm
*Virtual
International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address
March 8, 6:30pm
Rouse Visiting Artist Conversation: Archive Matrix Assembly: Nana Last and Thomas Struth
March 21, 6:30pm
Bringing Digitalization Home
Symposium
March 24–26
Jacqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture: Anne Lacaton
March 28, 12:30pm
*Virtual
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Sam Olbekson, “Culture, Community, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Indigenous Design”
March 30, 6:30pm
*The date of this event had previously been earlier in the calendar, but was changed to March 30.
Iñaki Echeverria, “Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco, an Ongoing Ecological Recovery in the Mexico City Valley”
March 31, 6:30pm
Sandra Barclay & Jean Pierre Crousse, “Transversal Grounds”
April 1, 12:30pm
TERREMOTO // David Godshall and Jenny Jones
April 5, 6:30pm
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko
Closing Reception
April 8, 4:30pm
Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Joan Nogué, “A Journey through Landscape: From Theory to Practice”
April 11, 12:30pm
*Virtual
Introducing Harvard Design Magazine #50: “Today’s Global” with editorial director Julie Cirelli and guest co-editors Rahul Mehrotra and Sarah Whiting, and featuring contributors from the issue
April 19, 12:30pm
John Portman Lecture: Bruther (Stéphanie Bru et Alexandre Thériot)
April 21, 6:30pm
Mayors Imagining the Just City
Symposium
April 22, 1:00pm