The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launches its spring 2023 public program with the opening of the exhibition Grand Paris Express: Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure, on display through March 31, 2023. A lecture and reception are scheduled for March 2, and an afternoon of workshops surrounding the large-scale transit project will follow on March 3. The Grand Paris Express is the winner of the 2023 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.
Other highlights include: Kotchakorn Voraakhom, who will present a lecture on the challenges that water-based cities face when addressing climate change (January 31). Adèle Naudé Santos will deliver the Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture entitled “Narrative Maps: A Design Process” (February 14). For the John Hejduk Soundings Lecture, Stan Allen will discuss his recent book Situated Objects (February 7). Kofi Boone will speak on environmental injustice in landscape architecture and urban planning for the Sylvester Baxter Lecture (February 16). Andrew Bernheimer will present the annual John T. Dunlop Lecture (March 28), with a talk titled “Where is the Architecture? Finding Design and Community Amidst Constraints,” followed by a discussion with Jill Crawford, Marc Norman, and Daniel, D’Oca. And Rouse Visiting Artist Abraham Cruzvillegas will present a lecture titled “Centring: A Definitely Unfinished and Temporary Structure for Art Making” (April 13).
The complete public program calendar appears below and can be viewed on Harvard GSD’s events calendar. Please visit Harvard GSD’s home page to sign up to receive periodic emails about the School’s public programs, exhibitions, and other news.
Spring 2023 Public Program
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, “LANDPROCESS: The Global and Local Climate Adaptation Design”
Lecture
January 31, 6:30pm
Yung Ho Chang, “Form, Content, and Total Design”
Lecture
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?”
Lecture
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”
Lecture
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
All programs take place in Piper Auditorium, are open to the public, and will be simultaneously streamed to the GSD’s website, unless otherwise noted. Registration is not required.
Closed captioning will be available for livestreamed events. CART captioning is available for in-person attendees. To request other accessibility accommodations, please contact the Public Programs Office at [email protected].