Open House Lecture: Ann Forsyth, “What is a Healthy Place? Cities, Neighborhoods, and Homes”
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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.
How to mitigate the impact of an epidemic and prevent the spread of the next viral disease: A guide for designers
One hundred and fifty years ago, using a map of London and data of the…
What role do planning and design play in a pandemic? Ann Forsyth reflects on COVID-19’s impact on the future of urban life
Over the past few days, normal life at Harvard has been upended by government, university,…
Elizabeth Hoover, “Seed Sovereignty and ‘Our Living Relatives’ in Native American Community Farming and Gardening”
Native heirloom seed varieties, many of which…
Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world
In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…
Smart Toilet Paper
by Anesta Iwan (MDE '19) — Recipient of the Outstanding Design Engineering Project Award…
Love in a Mist
Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility explores several evolving narratives on the spaces and politics of fertility, triggered by the “heartbeat bill,” which recently passed into law in states such as Mississippi, Kentucky, and Georgia to criminalize abortions from as early as six…
The Humanitarian Activist’s Handbook: Understanding the role of architects and planners in humanitarian crises
African refugees, who fled the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, stand outside tents in the…
Student work: Mining an emerging area of dementia studies, Alicia Valencia encourages memory-care facilities to embrace aesthetic play
Children may be celebrated for their non-rational thoughts, but society expects that adults will use…
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