This lecture is built on the assumption that we are currently situated in a posthuman convergence between the Fourth industrial Age and the Sixth Extinction, between and advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and non-human entities. This convergence calls for a
How can real estate development and sustainable design be used to foster equitable and inclusive redevelopment in cities? That’s the challenge that has animated the career of Kimberly Dowdell MPA '15, an architect, developer, and educator who is focused on leading projects that help contribute to the revitalization of cities like Detroit, and also preparing the next
Please join us for the 50th Anniversary of Urban Design Lecture delivered by former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Anthony A. Williams. Williams will discuss the role of political leaders in shaping the many facets–physical, programmatic, and philosophical–of the public realm. Tony Williams, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999 – 2007), is the current Chief
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is pleased to present a live, online screening of Heinz Emigholz’s Goff in the Desert, a sweeping, cinematic meditation on 62 buildings designed by the American architect Bruce Goff. Apprenticed at age 12 but never formally educated as an architect, Goff's work followed its own trajectory, apart from most 20th-century architecture. Goff in the Desert is one installment of a series
Major efforts are being implemented worldwide to restore ecosystems. However, the outcomes of restoration are uncertain. This uncertainty may be rooted in our lack of understanding on the reassembly of ecosystem complexity. Understanding how organisms rebuild their interactions and how functions derived form those interactions emerge is key to both evaluate and design future restoration.
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will host a two-day academic conference alongside its new exhibition, Forest Futures. The conferences will discuss the survival of the Anthropocene to address the risks, threats, initiatives and improved practices, relating to urban and metropolitan forests. The symposium accompanies a concurrent gallery exhibition in the Druker Design Gallery, Gund
Architect and professor Marlon Blackwell will discuss his architecture and design process and will introduce Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects, a monograph released in June 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press. The lecture will take place on February 8 at the GSD Gund Hall Piper Auditorium from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Lecture by Senior Loeb Scholar Malkit Shoshan Shoshan is a designer, author, and educator. She is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), which initiates and develops projects at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights In her work, she uses spatial design tools to make visible systemic violence,
Meyer, the inaugural faculty director of the University of Virginia’s transdisciplinary Morven Sustainability Lab, will present an overview of how landscape architectural design thinking is at the core of the strategic planning process for this 3000-acre rural landscape on the peri-urban edge of Charlottesville. She will describe how the socio-ecological history of this former plantation
As awareness about the environmental footprint of construction and the “mitigation” of its associated toxicities increases, transitions to other forms of building may connect to materials from intertidal origin that can also contribute to addressing the broken food chain. The lecture will discuss tidal zones as liminal spaces, as well as how different ingredients and
When we return to the an/architectural experiments of Gordon Matta Clark, we can find traces of earlier, potentially more radical projects than those that came to be compatible with liberal capitalism and we find them speaking in the language of unbuilding, breaking, cutting, collapsing, opening, dismantling. This lexicon has become potent in an era of
For over three decades, Dr. Margot Kushel has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to homelessness, particularly in California. Kushel, who recently led the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, will discuss insights that have emerged from her work as a
