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Tag: Graduate School of Design
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Campus & Community
Community by design
The first alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Design to serve as HAA president, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, is committed to creating inclusive alumni experiences.
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Campus & Community
Making field to table work regionally
Nina Sayles’ love of gardening is blooming into a drive to provide more nutritious foods for us all.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing monuments to life
On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.
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Campus & Community
Real scenes from an online graduation day
Capturing the moments of celebration as Harvard recognizes the Class of 2021.
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Campus & Community
Conversations of a different kind
For Graduate School of Design student Ayaka Yamashita, studying design was a way to understand human difference through various perspectives and mediums.
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Campus & Community
Come fall, a new humanities program
Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.
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Arts & Culture
Building a more just society
“The Architecture of Democracy” examined how buildings, and their designers, contribute to the shape of our society.
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Campus & Community
Preparing grad and professional Schools for remote fall
We look at how the different graduate Schools are handling online learning in the fall.
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Arts & Culture
Art for a cause
Graduate School of Design students auction works to advance social justice.
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Arts & Culture
Leaving a mark on campus
The new art exhibition “Windows of Harvard” can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online.
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Campus & Community
Graduate School of Design’s dean diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah M. Whiting diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Campus & Community
New dean for Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting, former dean of architecture at Rice University, returns to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as dean of the Graduate School of Design.
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Arts & Culture
At GSD, a tale of four cities
At the Graduate School of Design, the exhibit “Urban Intermedia” stands as “an experiment and the beginning of an ongoing discussion on new kinds of practices around the study of cities,” said co-curator Eve Blau.
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Science & Tech
Transforming the ‘coastal squeeze’ from climate change
One certainty about America’s coasts is that they will change in the coming decades as sea levels rise. Visiting Professor Steven Handel said landscape design, married with knowledge of native plants, can ensure that both human and natural needs are met.
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Science & Tech
Onward and upward, robots
The first article in a series on cutting-edge research at Harvard explores advances in robotics.
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Arts & Culture
Shifting the ‘Horizon’
In a trip to Iceland over the summer, Joanne Cheung worked with researchers to capture 360-degree video of the changing landscape.
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Arts & Culture
Take a seat … and the city’s pulse
A Harvard professor’s sculpture translates real-time data into soundscapes.
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Arts & Culture
Ideas (and sneakers) were in the air
Designer Virgil Abloh’s Harvard lecture mirrored his multiplatform career: bold, dynamic, and audacious.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu’
At the Center for Government and International Studies, a small exhibit captures the life and work of an artist influenced by Harvard, by a range of cultural forces, and by the postwar art movements swirling in Europe and New York City in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Campus & Community
A garden filled with history
Harvard College alum and GSD student John Wang’s “100+ Years at 73 Brattle” is now installed as the winner of the third Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition.
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Science & Tech
A house that produces energy
Harvard’s Ali Malkawi explains his efforts to create a house will be transformed into an energy-efficient headquarters and lab space for the Graduate School of Design’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities.
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Campus & Community
Grants back study-abroad initiatives in Italy, Canada
Plans for immersive student experiences in Canada’s far north and in Italy received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.
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Campus & Community
Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96
Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.
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Nation & World
You’re wrong about that, says Jonathan Franzen
Novelist Jonathan Franzen had some corrections for fellow liberals in a lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Campus & Community
For her, home is the heart of the matter
Dana McKinney, M.Arch ’17, M.UP ’17, hopes to use design creativity to affect social change.
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Science & Tech
Creative path through Harvard Forest
David Buckley Borden, a Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest, is using art to make a point about sustainability and conservation.
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Work & Economy
For retail, the revolution is televised
For retail, the revolution is being televised, or at least delivered through online screens.
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Science & Tech
Not your average paper airplane
Students threw paper airplanes in class for inspiration, not trouble, in a workshop led by a record-setting designer.
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Science & Tech
3-D material changes shape as it prepares for next task
Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable, and self-actuated. It can change size, volume, and shape; it can fold flat to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the next task.
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Campus & Community
Books that pop
The possibilities of pop-ups far exceed peekaboo with paper. Take a look through the gallery to see where examples pop up across Harvard’s libraries.
