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Projective Ecologies

Chris Reed & Nina-Marie Lister

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design

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New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial

Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Guy Trangoš

New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial explores the historical and contemporary consequence of our planetary relationship with space.

New Geographies 09: Posthuman

Mariano Gomez-Luque, Ghazal Jafari

Posthuman signals a historical condition in which the coordinates of human existence on the planet are altered by profound technological, ecological, biopolitical, and spatial transformations

New Geographies 10: Fallow

Michael Chieffalo, Julia Smachylo

The term fallow is borrowed from agriculture as a metaphor to critically examine the role of strategic dormancy in cycles of valorization and devalorization of the built and unbuilt environment.

Architecture and Waste

Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio-Villoria & Andreas Georgoulias

This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years.

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The Generic Sublime

Ciro Najle

The Generic Sublime investigates how the modern concept of the generic holds the potential to become the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary

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GSD Platform 7

Leire Asensio-Villoria

A selection from a year’s design speculations, events, and other activities at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

GSD Platform 8

Zaneta Hong

Platform 8 catalogs a curated selection of work generated in the past year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

GSD Platform 9: Still life

Jennifer Bonner, Michelle Benoit & Patrick Herron

Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions

GSD Platform 10: Live Feed

Jon Lott & John May

Platform 10: Live Feed is the latest installment of Platform, Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions.

GSD Platform 11: Setting the Table

Esther Mira Bang, Lane Raffaldini Rubin, Enrique Aureng Silva

Platform 11 is the 2017–2018 installment of Platform, the annual compendium documenting select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

GSD Platform 12: How About Now?

Carrie Bly, Isabella Caterina Frontado, Natasha Hicks

This installment of the GSD Platform series celebrates—and places itself within—the rich tradition of student publications at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Interdisciplinary Design

Hanif Kara

Architecture and engineering are changing. But what about the relationship between architects and engineers?

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GSD Platform 2

Felipe Correa

Platform 2 provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008–2009 academic year.