Conference: “Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future”
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Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future
From the Civil War to the recent troubles in Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri is a…
Conference: “Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future”
Program and schedule in PDF…
Mexican Cities Initiative Research Presentation and Reception
The event will feature the presentation of research from the work of the Mexican…
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design 2015: Madrid RÍO
The 12th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design…
Interlaced Spaces: A Live Portal Between GSD and the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani
On April 20th, 2015, two students at Harvard Graduate School of Design will open a…
Carlos Amorales in Conversation with Bobby Pietrusko
Mexican-born installation and film artist Carlos Amorales will engage in conversation with Robert…
UPD Lecture: Felipe Hernández, “Articulatory Urbanism”
The concept of “articulation,” which has a long trajectory in geography, philosophy, social studies, and cultural…
Risk and Resilience: Under One Roof: New Findings from USAID Post-Disaster Shelter Projects Evaluations (Haiti, 4 years on, and the Philippines)
Charles A. Setchell is the Senior Shelter, Settlements, and Hazard Mitigation Advisor at USAID Office…
SpainGSD and GSD Ecological Thinking: Izaskun Chinchilla, “Suspicious Biophilia: Organic Growth, Winning Proposal City of Dreams Competition”
The notion of ‘biophilia’ has been recently addressed by several authors in the field of…
Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Gia Wolff, “Floating Cities”
On the eve of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Carnival, the line of floats stretching from…
Wheelwright Prize Finalists’ Presentations
Hot & Wet: The Equatorial City and the Architectures of Atmosphere Erik L’Heureux, Singapore…
Club MEdiNA: Pascal Menoret, “Joyriding in Riyadh”
Pascal Menoret completed his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of History at the Université…
Carla Juaçaba, “Perceiving and Working”
Carla Juaçaba founded her independent studio in 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, following a period…
Caroline Shannon de Cristo and Pedro Henrique de Cristo, “Architectures of Urban Integration in Latin America”
This talk marks the opening of the exhibition, curated by Caroline Shannon de Cristo and…
Club MEdiNA: Alternative Spatial Practices in Istanbul
Istanbul is a city in transition. With half-forgotten traditions, borrowed experiences, cutting edge developments, fading…
Climate Week: Kairos Shen, “Building and Planning For Climate Change”
Kairos Shen is the Director of Planning at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. He has served…
Informing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities
In the wake of events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and around the country, three organizations…
Keller Easterling, “Extrastatecraft”
Architect/urbanist/writer Keller Easterling will address the theme of her book, Extrastatecraft (Verso, 2014): repeatable formulas…
GSD Talks: Cambridge Talks IX: “Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis”
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of…
GSD Talks: Cambridge Talks IX: “Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis”
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of…
Cambridge Talks IX Keynote by Reinhold Martin, “Infrastructure, Media, and Power-Knowledge: The Research University”
Reinhold Martin, author of The Organizational Complex (MIT Press, 2003), will present the keynote lecture for…
Ash Amin, “Lively Infrastructures”
This lecture examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case…
HAPI Webinar Series: Ann Forsyth, “Planning and Design Health Assessment Tools”
Drawing on the research in other parts of the Health and Places Initiative (HAPI) project,…
UPD Lecture: The Resilience Dividend: Judith Rodin in conversation with Jerold S. Kayden
Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations,…
HAPI Webinar Series: Ann Forsyth, Leire Asensio-Villoria, David Mah, Laura Smead, “Planning and Design Guidelines and Prototypes for Healthier Places”
This webinar will feature members of HAPI’s Harvard Graduate School of Design team, who will…
Cancún Practicum Presents: “Cancún: All Exclusive Urbanism”
In January 2015, a team of 10 students from Harvard GSD in the MDes, MUP…
Innovate: David Assael and David Basulto, founders of ArchDaily
Join David Assael and David Basulto, founders of the architecture publication, ArchDaily, in a talk cosponsored by…
Latin GSD Lecture: Ricardo Truffello, “Geographies of Social Conflict and Cohesion”
The lecture discusses different issues within the same territory by explaining the methodological and interdisciplinary…
Jeanne Gang, “Expeditions in the Contemporary City”
Today’s cities must cope with lapsed industrial spaces and inherited infrastructure. Through the lens of…
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER: SCAPEGOAT Launch, Issue 8
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER Join Silvia Benedito (GSD), issue co-editor Adam Bobbette (University of Cambridge),…
Joe Agoada: “Digital Mapping and Design Choices for International Development”
The Harvard Urban Planning Organization (HUPO), the MDesD Risk and Resilience Program, and the Center…
Conservation of Older Buildings Lecture: Stephanie Meeks: “Conservation as a Tool for Economic, Environmental, and Social Impact”
Stephanie K. Meeks is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Trust for Historic…
Urban Design Group Breakfast
As a follow up to the Urban Design Group lecture (October 9th @ 6:30 in…
Alimentary Design Lecture: “Eating in the Anthropocene”
Zack and Cat of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy will present research and creative work…
Club Medina lecture: Save Beirut Heritage
SAVE BEIRUT HERITAGE (also known as Save Beirut’s Heritage) is a cultural heritage organization based in…
Drawing for Designers Artist Talk: Joanna Malinowska
In conjuction with: Ewa Harabasz’s course Drawing for Designers Polish-born, New York-based artist Joanna Malinowska works…
Drawing for Designers Artist Talk: Joanna Malinowska
In conjuction with: Ewa Harabasz’s course Drawing for Designers Polish-born, New York-based artist Joanna Malinowska works…
Adaptive Design Lecture: Skylar Tibbits, “Self-Assembly & Programmable Materials”
The making of our human-scale world is outdated, energy intensive, error-prone and inefficient. From the…
PhD Program Lecture: Panayotis Tournikiotis, “Global Greece: C.A. Doxiadis and Planning in the Network Era”
Doxiadis’ planning theory, named ekistics, was founded upon the intersection of criticism against modern town planning…