Courses
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities (with FAS)
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Design Practice
Unprecedented issues, such as climate change, challenge the standard hyper-specialized approach to problem-solving. Within this context, there is a need for professions…
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Thinking Through Soil
Urbanization is always a process of soil formation. Every material process that shapes the construction of the urban environment passes through the…
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Mountains and the Rise of Landscape
To ask when we started looking at mountains is by no means the same as asking when we started to see them.
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Environmental Histories, Archived Landscapes
This course examines environmental histories of the 20th century—the alignments and contradictions of environmentalism and new technical environments—through the engineered landscapes of…
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Public Space as a Catalyst for Change in Informal Settlements: The Case of Argentina
How may we design transformative systems, tools, and frameworks to breach the gap between the formal and informal city through public space?…
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Cartographic Audition
Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest for sound within numerous sites academic and cultural production. With new environmental…
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CLIMATE CRISIS – BEYOND ADAPTATION & RESILIENCY: A Designer’s Geoengineering Toolkit for Mitigation
Currently, education of how landscape architects, architects and planners can address climate crisis (CC) impacts are focused on resilience (the capacity to…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
Summary This class explores how to design and make physical landscapes that are both rationally constructed and expressively convincing. This…
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Ecosystem restoration
Given the current speed of habitat and species loss caused by human development, the restoration of degraded ecosystem is one of the…
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Landscape Practices
This seminar examines the nature of contemporary landscape architecture and public realm practices. In this context, practice is considered broadly in terms…
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Discourse and Research Methods
Research conducted in the Doctor of Design Program (DDes) at the GSD spans a broad range of topics and areas of investigation that not only…
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Discourse and Methods II
This seminar serves as an introduction to prevalent critical approaches and methodologies in the history and theory of the design disciplines. The focus will be…