Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
Topic Resilience
Resilience Untangled: Challenges and Opportunities in Latin America
Event Description Given that resilience has emerged globally as a guiding principle for development, understanding…
Design Impact Vol. 4: Regeneration: Design Strategies for a Resilient Future
Event Description Design Impact Vol. 4: Regeneration: Design Strategies for a Resilient Future, examines alternative…
Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State: Abby Spinak and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre on the crisis in Texas
Newspapers this week are swamped with headlines like, “What Went Wrong…
Fallowscapes: Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles
On a promontory on the left bank of the lower Rhone River, just before it…
Will urban life recover when the pandemic is finally over? Alex Krieger on the fate of the American city after Covid
Yes, the pandemic (somewhat understandably) and the protests for justice (sadly) are leading to a…
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…
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…