Slide Kelly
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Visiting Faculty
Gund 403/405
Slide is a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches GIS and digital design technology media in the core studio sequence, and seminars and option studios concerned with geospatial applications in design for climate adaptation.
A designer, researcher, and technologist working at the intersection of landscape architecture and environmental planning, Slide is interested in how data-driven and design-based methods can act in reciprocity to support anticipatory spatial practices for living alongside periodic environmental risk.
Slide has contributed to research on scenario planning for communities in coastal New England,urban- and site-design for periodic wildfire across California’s wildland-urban interface, and data-driven methods for urban forest master planning from Cambridge, MA to Geneva, CH. His personal work research has focused on planted forests and social priorities of species conservation within the remediation of compromised U.S. public lands.
Slide holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Design Studies in Risk and Resilience from the GSD, and a BA in Architectural Studies from Tufts University. He was the 2024 winner of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture for Reforesting Fort Ord, and a co-founder of the GSD’s Landscape Technology Forum. He has has held positions at Sasaki Associates, SWA Group, Reed Hilderbrand LLC, and the Harvard Office for Urbanization. Prior to the GSD, Slide was the GIS Program Manager for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition – where supported landscape infrastructure planning to connect communities across the headwaters of the Rocky Mountains.