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Gund: a stormwater testing lab

Two MDesS students are using the GSD as a laboratory to show how Gund’s outdoor spaces can be more inviting and social while also working to improve water quality. Ecaterina Dobrescu and Rebecca Bartlett created “Stormwater Modules,” with help from an Office for Sustainability grant,  to transform a concrete patio through a modular system of vegetation and planters that will absorb and purify stormwater

Aug 1, 2013

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He said, she said: Women in Design take on Pritzker

Although the response by the Pritzker jury to Women in Design’s petition - to acknowledge the work of Robert Venturi’s wife and creative partner Denise Scott Brown - was disappointing, the Harvard GSD group is not going to give up. And it’s expanding its efforts to keep a spotlight on the issue of equity in the design fields with its new Design for Equality website.

Jul 16, 2013

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One Harvard, many GSD successes

Harvard’s ability to foster innovation has long been a core strength of the university, never more so than today. President Faust's mission to create One Harvard is spurring greater collaboration across schools, disciplines and facilities, and the GSD is at the forefront of the explosion of creativity.

Jul 8, 2013

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Transformative Mobilities: Porto & Medellín

Recipients of the Eleventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Metro do Porto by Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Acknowledging the transportation authority Metro do Porto Northeastern Urban Integration Project by the City of Medellín Acknowledging the government agency Empresa de Desarrollo…

AUG 26 – OCT 13, 2013

Rahul Mehrotra, Curator