The unifying theme of all the school's activities is design. Through the design of physical spaces, and through the design of policies and technologies that shape how those spaces are used, we aim to sustain and enhance the quality of the human environment at all scales, from the personal to the global.
SMArchS Colloquium-fall 2010
SMArchS Colloquium-Fall 2010
Sanford Kwinter Professor of Architectural Theory and Criticism at Harvard GSD MIT SMArchS Colloquium, 10/13/2010
An interview of Nader Tehrani, the new Head of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT.
Mark Goulthrope MIT, 09/24/2010
Digital stories I'd created from photos I'd taken in the fall of 2008 as part of Anne Spirn's MIT course on landscape photography and audio interviews I'd done with visiting middle school students from the Lawrence Family Development Charter School.
Digital stories I'd created from photos I'd taken in the fall of 2008 as part of Anne Spirn's MIT course on landscape photography and audio interviews I'd done with visiting middle school students from the Lawrence Family Development Charter School.
Digital stories I'd created from photos I'd taken in the fall of 2008 as part of Anne Spirn's MIT course on landscape photography and audio interviews I'd done with visiting middle school students from the Lawrence Family Development Charter School.
This is part of the documentation of the YouthBuild Lawrence youth leaders and their development of a campaign to fight littering in their city. The campaign was a hands-on project as part of Marshall Ganz's 'Organizing: People, Power and Change' class at Harvard's ...
Kristina Ford, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College; Former Executive Director, New Orleans City Planning Commission Description: There's no love lost between Kristina Ford and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; he made it clear that she was not ...
High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing.
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy ...
America's supreme economic, political and military power in the world is matched, says Leo Marx, by "correspondingly ardent, patriotic, nationalistic 'thinking of a large number of Americans, dedicated to the idea of America's unique, divinely ordain
Hafez Mirazi, Washington Bureau Chief, Host of "Al-Jazeera Weekly"; Al-Jazeera Television Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab news network, wasn't the Bush Administration's favorite media outlet. But Hafez Mirazi states that his network's motto is "both sides of the ...
Noah Feldman, Professor, New York University School of Law; and Kanan Makiya, The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University; Founder, Iraq Memory Foundation Can constitutional democracy unfold in Iraq? Noah Feldman ...
Without much national fanfare, Chicago has transformed itself into a paragon of green virtue.
Although the idea of freedom is nearly ubiquitous in American public discourse — and perhaps no more so than today — it has been subject to a remarkable degree of flux over the course of the nation's history.
Robert E. Looney, Professor of National Security Affairs, and Associate Chairman of Instruction, Naval Postgraduate School; John Tirman, Executive Director, Center for International Studies, MIT Iraq's oil reserves are the second largest in the world, yet according to both colloquium speakers, ...
