Areal view of Sugarland Visitor Center, 1964.

Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”

Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…

Mar 25, 2021

project

Tall grass overtakes sidewalks, city strips, and fire hydrants during Detroit summers

Spring 2021

News

Image of brightly colored (pinks, yellow, blues, green) map of Georgia

Excerpt from Pairs Issue 01: “On the Foundational Spirit: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits” by Sara Zewde with Kimberley Huggins

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations…

Mar 12, 2021

Announcements

Events poster for International Women's Week events

Womxn in Design celebrates International Womxn’s Day with a week of GRASSROOTS-themed events

The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Womxn in Design (WiD) is honoring International Womxn’s Day…

Mar 8, 2021

Features

Five design initiatives celebrating Black creativity, from host of The Nexus podcast

In February 2020, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Black History…

Feb 23, 2021

OP-ED

Consumers living within the compeititive power markets of Texas — which cover about 85 percent of the state — have consistently paid higher prices for electricity than those buying electricity from regulated municipal utilities and cooperatives. Photograph: Allison V. Smith, STR / The New York Times

Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State: Abby Spinak and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre on the crisis in Texas

Newspapers this week are swamped with headlines like, “What Went Wrong…

Feb 19, 2021

Features

Building facade in Harlem with many overlapping geometric colors

The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places

Black Harlem, storied and resilient, has been chronicled from many perspectives. Missing until now has…

Feb 17, 2021

News

ABSTRACT artwork with two red shapes against a white background

Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account

Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…

Feb 10, 2021

Symposium

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Symposium

Feb 24, 2021

10:30PM – 01:30AM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Symposium

Free and open to the public

Lecture

Aerial view of New York City, with sections colored in blue, green, red, and yellow.

Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Apr 7, 2021

12:00PM – 01:30PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Department of Architecture

Free and open to the public

Topic Social Equity

Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”

Cutting the Tall Grass

Excerpt from Pairs Issue 01: “On the Foundational Spirit: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits” by Sara Zewde with Kimberley Huggins

Womxn in Design celebrates International Womxn’s Day with a week of GRASSROOTS-themed events

Five design initiatives celebrating Black creativity, from host of The Nexus podcast

Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State: Abby Spinak and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre on the crisis in Texas

The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places

Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account

Design Impact Vol. 3: South Asia – Design Agency and Climate Change

Rebecca Choi, “White Man’s Got a God Complex”

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