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Excerpt: Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White, by Toni L. Griffin

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

Jun 15, 2020

Daniel Fernández Pascual, photographed by Ruth Clark

Daniel Fernández Pascual Wins Harvard Graduate School of Design’s 2020 Wheelwright Prize

Harvard GSD is pleased to name Daniel Fernández Pascual the winner of the 2020…

Jun 2, 2020

How can design improve disease modeling and outbreak response? A simulation tool by GSD alum Michael de St. Aubin offers answers

The global COVID-19 pandemic has placed roughly one-third of the human population on some form…

May 26, 2020

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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…

May 20, 2020

Bing Wang on COVID-19’s impact on the real estate sector: “Will the pandemic force us to recognize that our built environment is ill-prepared for emergencies?”

The crisis brought about by the coronavirus has utterly paralyzed the normal functioning of society…

May 19, 2020

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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…

May 16, 2020

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GSD names Jenny Odell the 2020 Class Day speaker

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named Jenny Odell as its 2020 Class Day speaker.

May 11, 2020

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Can technology enable site-specific knowledge? A studio examining transformations in rural China tests the limits of remote ethnography

Last March, the option studio I led with…

May 7, 2020

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The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…

May 1, 2020

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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…

Apr 28, 2020