All Together: Alex Krieger on summoning ideals during a period of crisis
Optimism in America is in short supply. Could it be otherwise? A fearsome pandemic has…
Topic Resilience
A Guidebook to an Empty Land: When the Indonesian government relocates its capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, will Indigenous life there be erased?
“When an area is empty, there’s a desire to fill it in—it’s the colonizing mindset,”…
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…
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,…
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…
Restoration ecologist David Moreno Mateos on mending our broken relationship with the natural world
In the first week of March, Australia’s New South Wales announced itself free of bushfires…
At The Dinner Table — Green to Orange: Building Ireland’s food security and identity
By Jiyun Jeong (MLA '19) Food reveals the culture and identity of the place. What…