Topic Ecology

A Guidebook to an Empty Land: When the Indonesian government relocates its capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, will Indigenous life there be erased?

“When an area is empty, there’s a desire to fill it in—it’s the colonizing mindset,”…

Sep 16, 2020

outdoor entryway looking out a person walking with a basket

From an Autosimulacrum to a new Transitopia, 2019-20 Irving Innovation Fellows share their post-graduate research

Each year since 2016, the Irving Innovation Fellowship has enabled recent Harvard Graduate School of…

Sep 11, 2020

Pharmaceuticals in Soil Formation. Drawing by Kymberly Ware

The Right to Sewage: Agriculture, climate change, and the growing need for cities to embrace wastewater reuse

Epidemiological Soils. Drawing by Chelsea Kashan, Santiago Mota, and Seth Denizen. An immense pipe connects…

Sep 2, 2020

Public Lecture Series

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Nov 16, 2020

12:00PM – 01:30PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Open to the public, but requires registration

Elaine Kwong, Kathryn Firth and David Rubin, Instructors

Spring 2020

Restoration ecologist David Moreno Mateos on mending our broken relationship with the natural world

In the first week of March, Australia’s New South Wales announced itself free of bushfires…

Apr 21, 2020

News

Clearing in a rainforest in Costa Rice surrounded by large trees

In “Nature Ecology & Evolution,” David Moreno Mateos presents new arguments on long-term ecosystem recovery

David Moreno Mateos, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of…

Apr 15, 2020

Niall Kirkwood and Gareth Doherty, Instructors

Spring 2019

Public Lecture Series