Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Sheila Foster, “Co-Cities: Reimagining the City as a Commons”
The GSD is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars…
Topic Infrastructure
Aimi Hamraie, “Critical Access Studies”
The GSD is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars…
Our Common Purpose: Voting by Design with Danielle Allen, Michael Murphy, and Sarah Whiting
The GSD is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars…
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…
Diane Davis on the GSD’s Risk and Resilience track: “As we face the global virus pandemic, our mission appears ever more important.”
In these tough times, when dystopian fears loom large and the design professions…
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…
The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing
Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…
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…