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…
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.
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…
Exhibition Lecture: Yael Bartana
Please join us for a lecture by Yael Bartana, marking the opening of the exhibition …
At the Gardner Museum, Big Plans draws on landscape architecture’s progressive, reform-minded roots
By the time Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. founded the world’s first landscape architecture program at…
Democratizing Miami’s Healthcare Economy: Anchoring Growth in Overtown
by Syed Ali (MUP '19) and Muniba Ahmad (MUP '19) As Miami reaches for an ever…
Work in Progress: Soledad Patiño’s fishing villages
Soledad Patiño (MAUD '20) describes her final project for the option studio “…
Climate change, “climigration,” and the Rust Belt: The New York Times joins Jesse Keenan for a look at the future of Duluth
Faced with a rapidly changing climate, where might millions of Americans relocate to escape newly…
Pharma 2100
by Anesta Iwan (MDE '19)) Is our country focused more on fixing our problems or…
The Vulnerability of Potable Water with Climate Change in Miami-Dade
by Pamela Cabrera (MDes '19) The environmental exposure…
“Why We Cycle”: Documentary Film Screening & Panel Discussion
To the Dutch, cycling is as normal as breathing. They don’t think about…