Highlights from the 2019 “Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future” Conference
Highlights from the 2019 Black in Design Conference,…
Topic Social Equity
Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world
In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…
Metro Strand: Renewed Vitality for Overtown in an Urbanizing Miami
by Sam Adkisson (MAUD ’19) and Hiroki Kawashima (MAUD ’19). — Recipients of 2019…
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…
The Affordability Crisis: What are the greatest challenges to affordable housing today?
At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, affordable housing is an urgent concern…
Domestic Orbits: Frida Escobedo on architecture’s tendency to conceal spaces of domestic labor
Selective concealment is a typical, though often unacknowledged, function of architecture. Architectural detailing, for example,…
Democratic Energy: Abby Spinak on the relationship between climate change and capitalism
It is difficult to discuss the ongoing consequences of climate change without discussing its relationship…
Black in Design 2019: Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future
The Black in Design Conference, organized by…
At the Gardner Museum, Big Plans draws on landscape architecture’s progressive, reform-minded roots
By the time Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. founded the world’s first landscape architecture program at…
Democratizing Miami’s Healthcare Economy: Anchoring Growth in Overtown
by Syed Ali (MUP '19) and Muniba Ahmad (MUP '19) As Miami reaches for an ever…