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Spring 2023 public program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Spring 2023 public program

On January 23, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launched its public spring 2023 program.

On January 23, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) opens its spring 2023 public program with the opening of the exhibition Grand Paris Express: Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure, which will be on display through March 31, 2023. On March 2, there will be a lecture and reception, followed by an afternoon of seminars about the large-scale transit project on March 3. The Grand Paris Express has won the Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design for 2023.

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, who will offer a lecture on the issues that water-based cities confront while addressing climate change, is another highlight (January 31). Adèle Naudé Santos will present “Narrative Maps: A Design Process,” the Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture (February 14). Stan Allen will give the John Hejduk Soundings Lecture about his recent book Situated Objects (February 7). Kofi Boone will deliver the Sylvester Baxter Lecture on environmental injustice in landscape architecture and urban planning (February 16). Andrew Bernheimer will deliver the annual John T. Dunlop Lecture on March 28. “Finding Design and Community in the Face of Constraints,” followed by a panel discussion with Jill Crawford, Marc Norman, and Daniel D’Oca. And Abraham Cruzvillegas, a Rouse Visiting Artist, will give a lecture titled “Centring: A Definitely Unfinished and Temporary Structure for Art Making” (April 13).

Grand Paris Express: Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure
Exhibition for the 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
Druker Design Gallery
January 23 – March 31

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, “LANDPROCESS: The Global and Local Climate Adaptation Design” 
January 31, 6:30pm

Yung Ho Chang, “Form, Content, and Total Design”
February 2, 6:30pm

Stan Allen, “Situated Objects”
John Hejduk Soundings Lecture
February 7, 6:30pm

Ana María Durán Calisto, “The Deep History of Amazonian Agroecological Urban Forests: Why Do They Matter Today?”
February 9, 6:30pm

Adèle Naudé Santos, “Narrative Maps: A Design Process”
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture
February 14, 6:30pm

Kofi Boone“Recognition, Reconciliation, Reparation”
Sylvester Baxter Lecture
February 16, 6:30pm

Grand Paris Express: Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure
Celebration for the 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
March 2, 6:30pm 

High Performance Public Transportation: Models and Strategies
Green Prize Workshop, Gund 112 (Stubbins)
March 3, 12:30pm

New Stations as Urban Projects: Multiple Dimensions
Green Prize Workshop, Gund 112 (Stubbins)
March 3, 3:00pm

International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address
March 7, 6:30pm

Bas Smets, “Biospheric Urbanism”
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture
March 23, 6:30pm

Andrew Bernheimer, “Where is the Architecture? Finding Design and Community Amidst Constraints”
John T. Dunlop Lecture 
March 28, 6:30pm

Mark Lee, “Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture”
Walter Gropius Lecture 
April 4, 6:30pm

Rachel Meltzer, “What We Miss When We Look at Everything: Global Shocks and Local Impacts”
April 11, 6:30pm

Abraham Cruzvillegas, “Centring: A Definitely Unfinished and Temporary Structure for Art Making”
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture
April 13, 6:30pm

Tosin Oshinowo“Aṣẹ: Intentional Contextuality and Adaptability in Design”
Aga Khan Program Lecture
April 18, 6:30pm

“Mayors Imagining the Just City: Volume 3” 
Symposium 
April 21, 1:00pm

Unless otherwise specified, all programs take place in Piper Auditorium, are available to the public, and are simultaneously streamed to the GSD’s website. There is no need to register.

For livestreamed events, closed captioning will be provided. For in-person attendance, CART captioning is provided.

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