Alison Pasinella

Digital Media Workshops (DMW)

The Digital Media Workshops are a School resource for students to learn a range of fundamental and emerging technologies and techniques specific to design at the GSD. These are live in-person and simultaneously online tutorials lead by students for students across the school, and serve as a platform for interdisciplinary learning, sharing and serendipity.

Contact Information

Craig Douglas, Assistant Professor

Ann Whiteside, Assistant Dean for Information Services

About the Digital Media Workshops

The workshops will canvas a range of technologies to support learning, exploration, and invention through the development of skills and techniques in order to generate knowledge through the agency of making ‘of, through, and for’ ideas.

The schedule of workshops includes general core software packages and competencies, the support and sharing across the school of specific course related software, and the exploration of new and emerging technologies. Stand-alone software tutorials will run alongside project-based workshops that demonstrate workflows across multiple software packages.

The Fall semester schedule endeavours to introduce and extend the learning of the general core technologies. The Spring semester is planned to build on this learning, include advanced fabrication and workflow techniques, and introduce emerging and inspiring technologies.

Workshops are held on a weekly basis through the semester in person at Gund Hall and simultaneously online via Zoom. Schedule details and workshop recordings can be found on the DMW Canvas page. The schedule is also available on GSD Now, and weekly announcements will be sent via email to remind people of upcoming workshops.

DMW Leadership Team:

Student coordinators:
Emma Sheffer (MArch ’27)

Iris Quping Li (MLA I ’26)

Faculty coordinators:
Craig Douglas, Assistant Professor

Ann Whiteside, Assistant Dean for Information Services

Thank you to all the wonderful instructors.

Sara Rogers

Bruce Boucek

Jessica Armstrong

Academic Tech Loan Equipment

Guidelines

In partnership with Information Technologies, Frances Loeb Library allows GSD affiliates to borrow digital equipment for the purpose of aiding classroom and studio instruction. The equipment is not provided for studio travel and will have a 1 day checkout period. Technical support and guidance for equipment usage is provided by Information Technologies.

All items are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Reservations or holds are not allowed, and items may only be checked out for one day. No multi-day checkouts are permitted

* A financial hold will be placed on your term bill, and fees will apply to any lost or damaged equipment.

Equipment for Loan

Open Access Policy

An open access policy for scholarly articles was adopted by vote of the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty on March 30, 2011, in keeping with its commitment to the dissemination of the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. (See full text of the policy.)

Participating in the Open Access Policy

Faculty participating in the GSD Open Access Policy should incorporate the following into their workflow with respect to scholarly articles:

• Deposit an electronic copy of the author’s final version of each scholarly article in the DASH repository no later than the date of publication or designate a proxy to make such deposits.
• Amend the publisher’s agreement, as needed, to retain the necessary copyright. Obtain an addendum form by logging in with Harvard ID and PIN.

Opting out of the Open Access Policy

• Faculty may choose to opt out of the GSD Open Access Policy by requesting waivers. Waivers will be granted automatically, upon request, on an article-by-article basis.
• To request a waiver, faculty should use the online Waiver Generator and log in with Harvard ID and PIN.

Scope of the Open Access Policy

• Applies only to scholarly articles.
• Applies to articles authored or co-authored by GSD faculty and completed after March 30, 2011 (except for articles for which the faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before that date).
• Grants Harvard a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to distribute scholarly articles for any noncommercial purpose. Faculty authors retain ownership and complete control in their writings, subject only to Harvard’s prior, nonexclusive license. Faculty can exercise their copyrights in any way they see fit, including transferring them to a publisher if they so desire. (However, if faculty authors do so, Harvard still retains its license and the right to distribute the article from the DASH repository.) See the Frequently Asked Questions of the Open Access Policy Guidelines from the Office for Scholarly Communications (OSC).
• Model Open Access Policy includes annotations with explanations that may be helpful. The language of the Model Open Access Policy is similar to the language of the GSD Open Access Policy.

Harvard Open Access Resources

Information for Harvard Authors

Office for Scholarly Communication

DASH , the University’s central, open-access repository

 

The Office for Scholarly Communication administers the DASH repository and provides information and support to Harvard faculty as they make decisions about publishing their scholarly works. The Frances Loeb Library facilitates implementation of the GSD Open Access Policy.

Special Collections

Ines Zalduendo

Special Collections

Ann Whiteside