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,…
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 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…
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…
Womxn in Design on shifts in design pedagogy: “The conditions in which we learn become the conditions we practice and reproduce.”
It’s been almost three years since the #MeToo movement started launching public awareness around the…