Month: March 2016

On Thursday, April 7, Dr. Johnathan Buonocore of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will discuss entitled “Planetary-Scale Primary Prevention for the 21st Century: Health and Climate Benefits of Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Carbon Mitigation” at the School of Public Health.  This lecture is presented as a part of the Center for Health and the Global Environment’s  Directors Lecture Series, which showcases how the center’s latest research is re-envisioning health and sustainability. This […]

On Wednesday, April 6, Harvard graduate student Yanina Berrera will present a seminar entitled “Air Pollution Knows No Boundaries,” at the Pfizer Lecture Hall. Berrera works with the Wofsy-Munger Group on Biosphere Atmosphere Exchange, and will discuss how atmospheric scientists understand air pollution in a city, when the air is constantly moving from state to state, and country to country. She will discuss how we use cutting-edge technology and models of winds and […]

On Wednesday, April 6, Dr. Pam Silver will deliver a lecture entitled “Designing Biology” at Le Laboratoire Cambridge. This lecture is presented as a part of the Wyss Institute’s  Directors Lecture Series, which showcases the institute’s Core Faculty through four lectures.. This series seeks to offer deep insight into many of the research programs and initiatives, focusing specifically on how the arts and design are informing the frontiers of science. Dr. Silver is building cell-based machines, designing novel […]

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities will present a series of Research & Innovation Talks. Given by members of the CGBC Research Team, talks will highlight and discuss projects underway at the Center. On Tuesday, April 5th, Xiwang Li will presenton: “Building Energy Forecasting for Operation Optimization and Fault Detection.” 10:00 am – 11:00am 20 Sumner Road, Room 1D Refreshments will be provided. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space […]

On April 4-5. the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure will present a workshop at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard Business School, entitled “Infrastructure Resilience II: Advancing Planning and Design Tools.” This workshop will continue our exploration of the intersection of Envision®, resilience, and infrastructure finance. Day 1 at GSD (Gund Hall Room 112): – Session 1: The Use of Envision® in Infrastructure Projects (Part I) – Session […]

On Wednesday, April 6, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation will present a discussion, entitled “The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China.” The discussion will be led by Luigi Tomba, a Senior Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University, who will  investigate how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives, providing vivid ethnographic accounts […]

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities will present a series of Research & Innovation Talks. Given by members of the CGBC Research Team, talks will highlight and discuss projects underway at the Center. On Tuesday, March 29th, Nari Yoon will present: “Application of CFD Automation for Green Buildings Certification and General Usage of CFD Buildings.” 11:45 am – 12:45pm 20 Sumner Road, Room 1D Lunch will be provided. Talks are open to […]

On Monday, March 28, the Harvard South Asia Institute will host an urbanization seminar entitled “India, the Urban Transition” by Henrik Valeur –architect-urbanist and Founder & creative Director of UiD. The event will be chaired by Rahul Mehrotra, a Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Valeur will discuss some of the problems with urbanization in India and propose some possible solutions, using the cities of Bangalore […]

On March 15, 18 and 21, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Office for Urbanization will convene a three-part “Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas,” in three Latin American countries, focusing on a variety of cultural institutions, practitioners, and academics from throughout Latin America in discussions on the potentials for landscape as a medium for urban intervention in the specific social, cultural, economic, and ecological contexts of Latin American cities. These events are […]