The Project on South Florida and Sea Level
South Florida and Sea Level: Adaptive Strategies for Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology, and Cultural Heritage…
Topic Resilience
Energy in Nepal: How has the fuel shortage changed the way people access and use energy?
by Justin W. Henceroth (MDes ’17) and Ashley C. Thompson (MDes ’17) Nepal is struggling to…
Alumni Profile: Sameh Naguib Wahba (MUP ’97/PhD ’02)
Name/year: Sameh Naguib Wahba (MUP ’97/PhD ‘02) Hometown: Cairo, Egypt Currently residing in Washington D.C. What…
Boston Living with Water Competition
An interdisciplinary GSD team worked over the course of 8 months to develop entries for…
GSD students drive collaborative Nepal relief, awareness efforts
Within hours of April 25’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, Harvard Graduate School of Design students had initiated support and advocacy projects in GSD’s Gund Hall and began collaborating with students and faculty from within Harvard and beyond
Design and Politics: Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities
Design and Politics was a studio of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at…
Ocean State
Resilience is typically a value associated with the scale of an ecosystem. This view overlooks the potential of resilience as an embedded micro-condition, which amalgamates through biological evidence. By nature competitive, plants emerge and ‘spring back’ based on regimes of disturbance that warrant their use…
New Contours of Crisis: Shaping Retreat and Resettlement in the Northeast
by George Gard (MAUD ’14) New data, recent experiences, and coastal scholars have shown that…
Building Resilience: Can design make a difference?
This year’s Lincoln/Loeb Fellow Helen Lochhead has been following the progress of the Rebuild by Design teams and finds much to inspire hope for a more climate-resilient urban landscape. Read her reflections in the LOEBlog.
Rapid response: GSD teams Tohoku Recovery competition win
A team of GSD students, led by Kristen Hunter (DDes) and advised by Jerold Kayden (professor of urban planning and design), traveled to Japan this month to collect an award, meet with officials and tour the Tohoku region devastated by compound disasters in 2011.