A team from Harvard that includes 3 GSD students has advanced to the regional finals of the 4th Annual Hult Prize. Venkata Krishna Kumar Matturi, Conor OShea and Ghazal Jafari (MDesS candidates) working with Varun Bhandari (MPA, HKS) and Yogeeta Manglani (MSc, HSPH) will compete for$1 million to launch a sustainable social venture that promotes global food security.
Nathan King (Fall 2013 Instructor of Architecture and DDes ’14) presented the results of the course relating to Innovation in Ceramics and The Future of Architectural Applications, during the Form|Rule|RuleForm symposium on Self-organizing forms and processes at the University of Innsbruck Institute for Structure and Deign, Innsbruck Austria.
The current explosive growth of South Asian cities was the impetus for the Contemporary South Asian City Conference this month in Karachi, Pakistan, where Rahul Mehrotra (chair and professor of urban planning and design) gave the first guest lecture, titled “Kinetic City.” He was attending as part of a Harvard team that included Spiro Pollalis (Professor of Design, Technology and Management) and Justin D. Stern (PhD student in urban planning and design), as well as representatives from the School of Public Health, South Asia Institute (a co-sponsor of the conference) and Harvard Medical School.
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.
