Lecture

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Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Oct 11, 2022

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Lecture

Department of Architecture

Free and open to the public

Features

Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “The Perpetual Stranger” by Elijah Anderson

Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice), from the Door…

Aug 15, 2022

Conference

Public Lecture Series

Conference

Oct 14, 2022

10:00AM – 04:30PM

GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Conference

Department of Landscape Architecture

Open to the public, but requires registration

Features

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Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?

At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…

Jul 12, 2022

Interviews

An oblique aerial view drawing with a low contrast colour palette illustrating hosuing designed by French 2D in Malden, Massachusetts.

Inclusive, Accessible, Subversive: Jenny French on a New Model for Cohousing

Bay State Cohousing, a 30-unit cohousing community, is neatly woven into the…

Jun 16, 2022

Thesis

Thesis

Susan Snyder, George Thomas and Krzysztof Wodiczko, Faculty Advisors

Spring 2022

Student Work

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Student Work

Gina Ford and Rhiannon Sinclair, Instructors

Fall 2021

Podcasts

Design Now Podcast, Episode 3: Designing for Social Justice

What does a just society look like? Often, it’s not about the things you…

May 24, 2022

Profiles

Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch ’22): Fostering Black Community and Afrofuturist Architectural Practice

A curious stranger at an airport recently asked Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch I ’22) what she…

May 16, 2022

Profiles

Sara Arman (MUP ’22): Promoting Health Equity through Community Organizing and Urban Planning

For Sara Arman (MUP ’22), community organizing is essential. When Arman graduated from Tufts with…

May 13, 2022

Topic Social Equity

Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture: Milton S. F. Curry, “Citizen Architect: Paradoxes of Race in Democratic Culture”

Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “The Perpetual Stranger” by Elijah Anderson

Olmsted: Bicentennial Perspectives

Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?

Inclusive, Accessible, Subversive: Jenny French on a New Model for Cohousing

2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Nicole Piepenbrink’s “HERE LIES DARBY VASSALL: Rendering the obscured and concealed history of slavery at Christ Church Cambridge”

2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “Bracing Peter Bracy”

Design Now Podcast, Episode 3: Designing for Social Justice

Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch ’22): Fostering Black Community and Afrofuturist Architectural Practice

Sara Arman (MUP ’22): Promoting Health Equity through Community Organizing and Urban Planning

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