Celebrating Recipients of the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge Award
Recipients of the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) Award were announced in a ceremony…
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.
2021 Practice Plenary – Practice, Public Space, and the Crisis of COVID-19: Learning from NYC’s Open Restaurants and Open Streets Programs
Event Description Beginning in late 2019 communities throughout the world began to…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Third Prize: “Urban Health Catalyst”
by Vicky Chen (MAUD/ MDes REBE ’22) and Xudong Zhu (MAUD ’22) — Recipients of…
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…
Nina Sayles (MUP/ MPH ’22): Making field to table work regionally
Nina Sayles spent five months of COVID isolation at her parents’ place in New Hampshire.
“From Virtual by Emergency to Virtual by Design,” the 2020–2021 Irving Innovation Fellows Advance Virtual Pedagogy
Each year, the Irving Innovation Fellowship enables recent Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni…
Two Years Later: What has COVID-19 Permanently Changed for Design?
Tables on the Gund Hall front plaza accommodate outdoor learning and social space. Photograph…
Design Now Podcast, Episode 2: Public Health, the Pandemic, and Beyond
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all thinking more actively…
Publics
Harvard Design Magazine 49: Publics questions how public spaces—the physical, the cultural, and the theoretical—operate…
Three Student Proposals Addressing the National Housing Crisis Place at the 2021 Hack-A-House Competition
Proposals developed by three groups of Harvard Graduate School of DesignGSD students were recently recognized…