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…
Topic Social Equity
Olmsted: Bicentennial Perspectives
Event Description The Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in partnership with the…
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…
Inclusive, Accessible, Subversive: Jenny French on a New Model for Cohousing
Bay State Cohousing, a 30-unit cohousing community, is neatly woven into the…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Nicole Piepenbrink’s “HERE LIES DARBY VASSALL: Rendering the obscured and concealed history of slavery at Christ Church Cambridge”
by Nicole Piepenbrink (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. The material…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “Bracing Peter Bracy”
by Hana Cohn (MLA I ’24), Youngju Kim (MAUD ’23), Arami Matevosyan (MDes REBE ’22),…
Design Now Podcast, Episode 3: Designing for Social Justice
What does a just society look like? Often, it’s not about the things you…
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…
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…
The GSD’s Early Design Education Programs: An Interview with Megan Panzano
Megan Panzano In 2021, the Harvard Graduate School of Design invested in a…