Coming Soon: Harvard Design Magazine #49: Publics questions how public spaces operate in a fragmented social and political environment
Harvard Design Magazine relaunched with March 2021’s Harvard Design Magazine 48: America, an issue that…
Topic Health
Health can be a powerful lens for analyzing design and planning priorities. Investigations of the many links between health and the built environment—from air quality and food access to housing and mobility—reveal the power of design to support health and healing in preemptive and progressive ways.
Using Math to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in Informal Settlements
With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, “social distancing” became a household term. While governments…
Design Impact – Following the Sun: Design Futures at the Intersection of Health, Equity and Climate Change
Event Description Design Impact – Following the Sun: Design Futures at the Intersection of Health,…
2021 Class Day Speaker Jia Tolentino: An Interview
Jia Tolentino will present the GSD's 2021 Class Day Address. Photo by Elena Mudd. Jia…
Design collaborative colab-19 is changing how we think about post-pandemic architecture
Late last year, a scaffolding structure rose to abut the facade of the popular…
Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account
Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…
Growing-Up Warrendale: Trauma-Informed Landscape Operations for Neighborhood Intersections
by Ana Cristina Garcia (MLA I ’17) The neighborhood of Warrendale in Detroit is transforming…
The Future of Air Travel: Toward a better in-flight experience
Anyone remember air travel? In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe…
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, “The Miasmist: George E. Waring, Jr. and Landscapes of Public Health”
The GSD's Spring 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.
In Cotton Kingdom, Now, Sara Zewde retraces Frederick Law Olmsted’s route through the Southern states
“The mountain ranges, the valleys, and the great waters of America, all trend north and…