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Rendered perspective of new main square facing barraco, Casa de Oxumarê

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…

Oct 22, 2020

Illustration of community

Excerpt: Turning to the Flip Side, by Maruxa Cardama

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Oct 22, 2020

Abstract blue line drawing representing waste and garbage

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,…

Oct 16, 2020

Marcus Samuelsson

Excerpt: The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food by Marcus Samuelsson

Born in Ethiopia, raised and trained as a chef in Sweden, and now living and…

Oct 15, 2020

Illustration of a house under construction

Excerpt: Right to the City for All: A Manifesto for Social Justice in an Urban Century, by Lorena Zárate

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Oct 14, 2020

Illustration of connected city

Excerpt: How to Build a New Civic Infrastructure, by Ben Hecht

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Oct 6, 2020

Illustration of a gathering of people holding a rainbow ribbon

Excerpt: Cape Town Pride; Cape Town Shame, by Carla Sutherland

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Sep 29, 2020

All Together: Alex Krieger on summoning ideals during a period of crisis

Optimism in America is in short supply. Could it be otherwise? A fearsome pandemic has…

Sep 25, 2020

FBI Building in Washington DC

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…

Sep 21, 2020

Indigenous people of Borneo

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,”…

Sep 16, 2020