Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?
“For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned…
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 can design improve disease modeling and outbreak response? A simulation tool by GSD alum Michael de St. Aubin offers answers
The global COVID-19 pandemic has placed roughly one-third of the human population on some form…
Bing Wang on COVID-19’s impact on the real estate sector: “Will the pandemic force us to recognize that our built environment is ill-prepared for emergencies?”
The crisis brought about by the coronavirus has utterly paralyzed the normal functioning of society…
Stephen F. Gray: “We have a name for the uneven distribution of exposure and risk along racial lines, and it’s not COVID-19. It’s structural racism.”
COVID-19 is a dangerous new reality, spreading indiscriminately and without regard for skin color or…
2020 graduate Juan Reynoso bridges the worlds of public health and urban planning
Excerpted from a Harvard Gazette series of profiles showcasing some of…
From 3D-printed face shields to strategies for a just recovery: How the Harvard Graduate School of Design community is contributing to COVID-19 response efforts
Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Harvard Graduate School of Design community is working to…
Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab
The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…
Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”
Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…
A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally
Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…
The pandemic has caused an unprecedented reckoning with digital culture. Architecture may never be the same again (and that’s okay)
Images from “The Architecture of Light” by Serge Najjar Reflections on creating architectural culture online…