“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…
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.
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…
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…
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 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Mary Louise Chatters Taylor’s “Urban Planning and Mental Wellness in Black Communities”
by Mary Louise Chatters Taylor (MUP ’21) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize…
2021 Class Day Speaker Jia Tolentino: An Interview
Jia Tolentino will present the GSD’s 2021 Class Day Address. Photo by Elena Mudd. Jia…