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…

Jun 22, 2020

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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…

Jun 15, 2020

OP-ED

Diane Davis on the GSD’s Risk and Resilience track: “As we face the global virus pandemic, our mission appears ever more important.”

In these tough times, when dystopian fears loom large and the design professions…

May 20, 2020

News

Bing Wang on COVID-19’s impact on the real estate sector: “Will the pandemic force us to recognize that our built environment is ill-prepared for emergencies?”

The crisis brought about by the coronavirus has utterly paralyzed the normal functioning of society…

May 19, 2020

Features

The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…

May 1, 2020

News

Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab

The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…

Apr 29, 2020

OP-ED

Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”

Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…

Apr 28, 2020

Features

A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally

Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…

Apr 27, 2020

The Incidents

By Toni L. Griffin

June 2020

OP-ED

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Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”

A 1908 illustration from the Virginia Health Bulletin shows urban diseases threatening the bucolic conditions…

Apr 13, 2020

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Topic Urbanism

Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?

Excerpt: Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White, by Toni L. Griffin

Diane Davis on the GSD’s Risk and Resilience track: “As we face the global virus pandemic, our mission appears ever more important.”

Bing Wang on COVID-19’s impact on the real estate sector: “Will the pandemic force us to recognize that our built environment is ill-prepared for emergencies?”

The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab

Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”

A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally

Design in a Frame of Emotion

Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”

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