Lizzie MacWillie (MDesS ADPD/MAUD '14) and Nicolas Rivard (MAUD '13, 2013 Global Health Corps Fellow with MASS Design) have published a paper entitled "Beyond Participation: Community Storytelling for Self-Organization".
A GSD urban planning team’s hopeful vision of a sustainable and resilient future for the Tohoku region of Japan - devastated by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011 - has earned first prize in Toyo University’s Tohoku Recovery invitational academic competition. Maria Ignacia Arrasate (MDes), Elise Baudon (MUP), Natalia Gaerlan (MUP), Karina Gilbert (MAUD) and Trevor Johnson (MUP) collaborated on a team led by Kristen Hunter (DDes) and advised by Jerold Kayden (professor of urban planning and design). They will be traveling to Japan in February to receive the $10,000 award for their project “Here Today, Here Tomorrow.”
A team with Waqas Jawaid (MArch I '14), Quardean Lewis-Allen (MArch I '14) and Jonathan Crisman (Master in Architecture and in City Planning from MIT) has risen to become one of five finalists in the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative's Upham's Corner Artplace competition.
The GSD will establish the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities as one of the three major University initiatives supported by Evergrande Group, an integrated industry leader based in China.
A new student publication is testing the epistolary form as a device for generating conversations about architecture and design. Launched in September 2013, each issue of Open Letters presents one letter addressed to a particular party, but intended for publication, about any topic relating to the design disciplines.
Students teams have been pitching projects born in last semester’s Networked Urbanism to forward-thinking municipalities and venture capitalists.
Azure Magazine lists Professor Preston Scott Cohen’s Datong Library as one of ten significant projects to watch for in 2014.
Michael Hooper, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the GSD, publishes article on the politics of renting and its relationship to urban development in Africa.
Professors Rahul Mehrotra, Spiro Pollalis and PhD candidate Justin D. Stern will travel to Karachi, Pakistan alongside a team of Harvard scholars, students and doctors to participate in the Contemporary South Asian City Conference (Pakistan Urban Forum) from January 9-12.
