Dianne Lê (MLA ’22): A First-Generation Student Designs Spaces for Recovery, Resilience, and Community-Building

For Dianne Lê (MLA II ’22), design and research is deeply informed by her background.

May 13, 2022

Profiles

Sara Arman (MUP ’22): Promoting Health Equity through Community Organizing and Urban Planning

For Sara Arman (MUP ’22), community organizing is essential. When Arman graduated from Tufts with…

May 13, 2022

Interviews

Black in Design mentees and mentors pose outside Gund Hall on a spring day.

The GSD’s Early Design Education Programs: An Interview with Megan Panzano

Megan Panzano In 2021, the Harvard Graduate School of Design invested in a…

May 11, 2022

News

Interior spread of 'Inventing Greenland'

Inventing Greenland by Bert De Jonghe Examines the Urban Transformation of an Arctic Nation

A new book by doctor of design candidate Bert De Jonghe (MDes ’21),…

May 6, 2022

Podcasts

Future of the American City: Signe Nielsen

Signe Nielsen is a landscape architect and principal of MNLA. She joins Charles…

May 5, 2022

News

A Call to Action: Just City Mayoral Fellows Discuss Design Interventions to Address Racial Injustice in America

“Everything we do at the GSD,” Dean Sarah Whiting said, “is affected by or affects…

May 4, 2022

Features

A projector screen displaying a zoom meeting where students discuss adaptive design with speakers who are joining online.

Designing With and Not Just For People with Atypical Bodies and Minds

We live in a world designed under a highly constrained idea of what is normal.

Apr 28, 2022

Dean's Messages

A letter from Sarah M. Whiting on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery

Dear GSD community, I write to encourage you to pause and take in this morning’s…

Apr 26, 2022

Features

Indigenous leader standing alone in desert

Climate Migration: Latin America Prepares for an Increase in Environmental Refugees

Infrastructure, in conventional imaginations, exists as a tool of permanence: bridges, roads, sidewalks, and utilities…

Apr 21, 2022