All Exhibitions

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New Student Fellowships @ the GSD

Through the Grounded Visionaries campaign, the GSD endowed 25 new fellowships—an increase of 60 percent. We are very grateful to the many individuals, corporations, and foundations that have stepped up to support financial aid for students. These fellowships help broaden the diversity of the…

exhibition dates: NOV 1 – DEC 20, 2018

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Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative

“Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative,” the culmination of a four-year investigation funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, argues that the complexity of contemporary urban societies and environments makes communication and collaboration across professional boundaries and academic disciplines essential. Four research projects, focused respectively on…

exhibition dates: AUG 27 – OCT 14, 2018

Eve Blau and Robert Pietrusko, Curators
Stephen Gray, Contributor

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Names, Things, Cities: Divine Comedy

Nomi, Cose, Città. Divina Commedia.   The exhibition deconstructs the Divina Commedia in singular elements that are part of specific categories, and creates a visual archive of one of the most famous long narrative poems in the world. Every illustrated image refers to main characters as well as objects, atmospheric agents,…

exhibition dates: AUG 28 – OCT 14, 2018

Francesca Benedetto, Curator

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Dazibao

Dazibao (大字报;  Chinese: “big character report”)  proposes a selection of 360 student drawings spanning a decade of GSD option studios taught by George L. Legendre.  Themes include the legacy of High Modernism (“Mies Immersion II,” 2009), form vs. function (“Real and Imaginary Variables: Art Spaces,”…

exhibition dates: AUG 28 – OCT 14, 2018

George L. Legendre, Curator

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Inside Architecture

Organized by artist Luisa Lambri, with Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Professor in Practice of Architecture. Based on a workshop conducted by artist Luisa Lambri in January 2018, this exhibition features students’ photographs of the interior of Harvard University’s Carpenter Center designed by Le Corbusier. The project…

exhibition dates: AUG 31 – OCT 14, 2018

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Commencement 2018

Each year, the Commencement exhibition showcases work from graduating students, offering a glimpse into what they have created during their time at the GSD. All featured work is selected by the students themselves, and displayed in poster form alongside postcard versions for visitors to take. Prize…

exhibition dates: MAY 24 – AUG 1, 2018

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Live Feed: Platform 10

Letter from the Dean The mission and the work of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design oscillates between knowledge construction and societal relevance. As it unfolds, this negotiation produces its own themes and variations in emphasis between the two areas. Understanding and then responding…

exhibition dates: MAR 26 – MAY 11, 2018

John May and Jon Lott, Curators

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Design and the Just City Exhibition

Imagine that the issues of race, income, education and unemployment inequality, and the resulting segregation, isolation and fear, could be addressed by designing for greater access, agency, ownership, beauty or empowerment. Now imagine the Just City — the cities, neighborhoods and public spaces where all…

exhibition dates: MAR 26 – MAY 11, 2018

Toni L. Griffin, Curator

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ULSAN REMADE: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial City

The Spring 2017 option studio “ULSAN REMADE: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial City” worked with the presence of the ‘Fifth Industrial Revolution,’ a current systematic transformation combining accelerated and automated methods of manufacture and industrial production. This transformation features changes to local patterns of energy,…

exhibition dates: MAR 19 – MAY 11, 2018

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Inhabiting the Limbo

By Zahra Safaverdi (MArch ’17), Irving Innovation Fellow.  In recent history, the distinction between the product of imagination, the physical manifestation of the image, and that which belongs to the reality of quotidian life is clear. This clarity and emphasis on keeping the realm of the…

exhibition dates: MAR 12 – MAY 11, 2018