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Dec 17, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | Hanif Kara |William Smith
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise residential building in West London. Most Londoners remember where we were that day as events unfolded. The catastrophe led to the deaths of 72 people and caused severe trauma for the survivors, the community, and the nation. The Grenfell tragedy exposed a series of systemic failures in building regulations, safety protocols, and emergency response strategies in the United Kingdom.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | William Smith
A vertical garden in the backyard of 40 Kirkland Street on the campus of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) promises sanctuary to insects, relief from the late-summer heat, and new insights for how cities around the world can mitigate the effects of climate change. More than 1400 local plants hang in grow bags from a cylindrical scaffolding tower that rises nearly as high as the surrounding buildings.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | Mimi Zeiger |William Smith
Los Angeles’ Alameda Street cuts a north-south line through the city. Potholed by time, traffic, and freight trucks, the roadway stretches from Chinatown to the Port of Long Beach.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | William Smith
Students in Allen Sayegh’s seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) installed an array of sensors on a tree in the yard behind the School’s iconic Gund Hall. The project aimed to collect data about phenology, the tree’s biological responses to changing seasonal temperatures. Integrating technology with the landscape, the effort is an example of a responsive environment, or a space augmented with digital tools and content.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | Mahan Moalemi |William Smith
For almost two decades, Sarah Oppenheimer has investigated the conditions that enable us to act upon and recondition the built environment. The artist is best known for her dynamic architectural interventions, or more precisely, insertions, as her work tends toward partial modifications rather than total disruptions in the structural fabric of a given space.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | William Smith
Bounded by the Blackstone River, a vital artery for industry since the late eighteenth century, Central Falls, RI, has a long history as a manufacturing center. The arc of that history—spanning from the city’s role as a catalyst for regional growth to its resident’s pivotal actions in the labor movement to the region’s slow decline as an industrial hub—is reflected in a now-vacant property off Broad Street, near Central Falls’ northern edge.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | William Smith
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces eight new faculty appointments for the coming academic year. Reinforcing the strengths of the GSD’s existing faculty in the design fields, their areas of expertise range from the management of contemporary city governments to the history of ancient landscape design, and from cutting-edge robotic to sustainable construction techniques.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
player.fm | Blake Smith |William Smith |James Fodor |Rose Eveleth
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May 29, 2024 | 
player.fm | Blake Smith |William Smith |James Fodor |Rose Eveleth
How can we, humans, look at our relationship to nature differently? In season three of Going Wild, on top of stories about animals, we invite you to journey through the entire ecological web — from the tiniest of life forms to apex predators — alongside the scientists, activists and adventurers who study it. Wildlife biologist and host Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant has been studying wild animals in their natural habitats all over the world for years. Our award-winning podcast takes you inside the hidde ...
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May 20, 2024 | 
gsd.harvard.edu | William Smith
For his 1946 thesis at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei proposed a museum in Shanghai. Intended to display Chinese art, the structure embodies a proposition about the changing nature of cultural and civic institutions in the cosmopolitan city where Pei spent his early life—a city that had since been transformed by war and was on the verge of revolution.
