Has “climate resiliency” lost its meaning? Jesse M. Keenan and Chris Reed discuss in Metropolis and elsewhere
As Mimi Zeiger observes in Metropolis, natural disasters occupy our cultural consciousness with mounting…
Topic Resilience
Jesse M. Keenan in Newsweek: time is now to evaluate design risk, enhance resilience against wildfires
2017 is on track to break the record—set in 2015—for total acres burned by wildfires…
Coastal Retreat: Staging Inundation in Provincetown
by Kent Hipp (MLA ’17) — Recipient of ASLA Certificate of Honor and ASLA Certificate of…
NoBe Nexo—Recipient of the 2017 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize
by Lisa Hollywood (MAUD ’17), Chris Merritt (MLA ’17), Patricia Alvarez (MDes REBE ’18) and Lindsay…
Design for Recovery: Fieldwork in Nepal & Somalia
During January of 2016, a group of GSD students travelled to Nepal and Kenya, to…
Groundedness as Risk: Adaptive Strategies for Ground Failures in Seattle
by Arthur Leung (MDes ’17) This thesis argues that the conditions of the ground—the mutable…
Phyto Garden
A New Paradise-Renewal of Damaged and Polluted City Land with the Power and Work of…
Jakarta’s Orogeny: Inhabiting Java’s Volcanic
by Pedro Aparicio Llorente (MDes ULE ’16), recipient of the Gerald M. McCue Medal, and Namik…
Post-disaster Nepal and the power of fieldwork
In the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Harvard Graduate School of Design…