Excerpt: In It Together, by Lesley Lokko
“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…
Topic Social Equity
Redlining, Green Books, Gray Towns, High Yellow: Artist Amanda Williams on the relationship between color, race, space and value
Architect and artist Amanda Williams is best known for her bold public art project,…
Inveterate Scars: Confederate Monument Removal in the New South
by Ann Hunter Lynch (MLA '19) The removal of Confederate monuments as it is carried…
Excerpt: Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives, by Darnell L. Moore
“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…
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…
An Anti-Racist Reading List: Five Essential Titles for Designers
How can design contribute to the fight against racism? As a place to start, the…
Excerpt: Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White, by Toni L. Griffin
“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…
“Minneapolis Affects Us All”— A letter from Dean Sarah M. Whiting*
Congratulations to all, especially our Class of 2020, for finishing out the academic year with…
2020 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Angela Mayrina’s “A Guidebook to an Empty Land: Kalimantan and the Shadows of the Capital”
by Angela Mayrina (MDes '20) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize Indonesia is…
2020 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Justin Cawley’s “Rescaling the University: Vertical Campuses and Postindustrial Urban Restructuring in Western Sydney”
by Justin Cawley (MAUD '20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…