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We look forward to welcoming you to campus for GSD Comeback: Alumni & Friends Celebration. Over the two days, you will interact with students and faculty and have time to reconnect with classmates and fellow alumni.
Alumni and friends are encouraged to bring a guest. Guests must be over the age of 21.
Questions? Contact
alumni@gsd.harvard.edu
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Please review the schedule below and you may sign up for activities on the
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Friday, September 16, 2022
4:00 PM-9:30 PM
WelCOMEBACK: Check-in & Registration
Druker Design Gallery
Visit the WelCOMEBACK table to check in, grab your name badge, and printed materials to navigate the weekend. Staff will be at the ready to answer any questions and direct you to the various events throughout the space!
4:30 PM-6:00 PM
ECO FOLLY Exhibition Opening Reception
Frances Loeb Library
Environmental implications ground the twelve projects of this exhibit, which is the outcome of a studio and seminar jointly taught by a designer and a historian, Professors Grace La MArch ’95, Principal of LA DALLMAN, and Erika Naginski, the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History. Taught in Spring 2022 and sponsored by the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, ECO FOLLY takes a speculative approach to sustainability; informed by research in the history of science, aesthetic philosophy, and architectural technology. All are welcome!
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Alumni Award Ceremony: Honoring our Community
Piper Auditorium
Our inaugural celebration will uplift the work and legacy of our Alumni Award winners. During this celebration, we will hear from Dean Whiting and the award winners through a moderated discussion.
8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Beer & Dogs: A Community Celebration
Front Porch and First Floor
Enjoy a classic BBQ with current students, faculty, staff, fellow alumni, and friends in celebration of our community!
Saturday, September 17, 2022
9:00 AM-1:30 PM
WelCOMEBACK: Check-in & Registration
Druker Design Gallery
Visit the WelCOMEBACK table to check in, grab your name badge, and printed materials to navigate the weekend. Staff will be at the ready to answer any questions and direct you to the various events throughout the space!
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Breakfast & Connect
Front Porch; Dining Areas: Piper Auditorium, Gund Garden, Porticos 122-123
Start the day off right with a healthy continental breakfast. Connect with fellow alumni and friends in one of our multiple dining areas.
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Courses & Exploration, Module I
Master in Design Engineering Showcase
Piper Auditorium
Facilitated by
Martin Bechthold DDes ’01
, Co-Director of the Master in Design Engineering Program, and Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology;
Elizabeth Christoforetti MArch ’09
, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture; and MDE students
Understand, Imaging, Build:
The Master in Design Engineering
program at Harvard prepares a new generation of leaders to create transformative solutions that address societal grand challenges.
Frances Loeb Library Archives Presentation & Discussion
Special Collections Room – Frances Loeb Library Lower Level
Facilitated by
Ann Whiteside
, Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Services, and
Ines Zalduendo MArch ’95
, Special Collections Archivist & Reference Librarian.
Unprecedented Realism
: Selections from the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection
Druker Design Gallery
Facilitated by
Dan Borelli MDes ’12
, Director of Exhibitions.
Join a tour of the current Druker Design Gallery exhibition to learn more about the important work from the
Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection
, which was recently gifted to the Frances Loeb Library Special Collections.
Option Studio Preview: The Paradox of Hunger – Rural Mississippi
War Room
Facilitated by Cory Henry, Design Critic in Architecture
This
studio
challenges the boundaries and agency of design through the examination of the structural powers, inequities and implications that intersect, or caused by, food insecurity. Particularly in the rural south.
11:00 AM-11:30 AM
Coffee & Connect
Front Porch, Dining Areas: Piper Auditorium, Gund Garden, Porticos 122 - 123
Grab a drink, snack, and recharge in between modules. Connect with fellow alumni and friends in one of our multiple dining areas.
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Courses & Exploration, Module II
The Right to The Sewage: Design, Research, and Ways to Work in Landscape Architecture Now Presentation
Piper Auditorium
Facilitated by
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich
, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture.
There is no clear path for the discipline in this complex moment but there are lots of ways in which design can engage with the world.
The Right to the Sewage
project has been growing and building for more than three years making evident the need for transforming complex realities into multiple design research projects. This session will enfold those new avenues of reach and collaboration in the academic environment.
Presentation and Discussion: The New Master in Real Estate Degree Program
War Room
Facilitated by
Jerold Kayden
, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Founding Director, Master in Real Estate Program
The Master in Real Estate (MRE)
is a 12-month degree program for individuals seeking to acquire or sharpen core real estate skills while learning how real estate can advance beneficial spatial, social, and environmental outcomes in cities and metropolitan areas worldwide.
Eco Folly – Option Studio & Seminar Exhibition – Opening Discussion
Frances Loeb Library – Upper Lobby
Facilitated by
Grace La MArch ’95
, Professor of Architecture,
Erika Naginski
, Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History, and
Oonagh Davis MArch '23
Eco Folly
is a jointly taught design research studio and seminar, taught in the Spring of 2022. The students investigated the folly as a typological springboard for coalescing formal creativity and sustainable imperatives, sited on the Crane Estate (Ipswich, Massachusetts). This endeavor, funded by the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities and the Department of Architecture, culminated in the Eco Folly exhibition at the GSD Loeb Library.
GSD Gateway Initiative: Enhancing Community Engagement at the GSD
Room 124
Facilitated by
Ann Forsyth
, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning, and Director of the Master in Urban Planning Program
The GSD has a long history of engaging local communities in the Boston area and beyond though courses, research projects, and educational activities. This session will discuss a new initiative, the GSD Gateway, that will create a more robust and accessible engagement infrastructure at the GSD centered around community-engaged coursework.
Unprecedented Realism
: Selections from the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection
Druker Design Gallery
Facilitated by
Dan Borelli MDes ’12
, Director of Exhibitions.
Join a tour of the current Druker Design Gallery exhibition to learn more about the important work from the
Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection
, which was recently gifted to the Frances Loeb Library Special Collections.
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch & Connect
Front Porch; Dining Areas: Piper Auditorium, Gund Garden, Porticos 122-123
Find classmates and friends and share your morning experiences over lunch in one of our dining areas. During lunch, there will be opportunities to take class and group photos.
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