Events
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Environmental Adaptions / Adaptive Environments
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| How do we design spaces that evolve with us—shaping, shifting, and adapting to the conditions, behaviors, and needs of those who inhabit them? Adaptive Environments explores how architecture can move beyond the static, making adaptability a core principle in creating resilient, future-ready environments that respond dynamically to their users and surroundings. This symposium, bringing together leading voices in architecture and design—including… Read More
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Sustainable Building Futures: Leveraging Policy to Scale Technology and Foster Innovation for Global Climate Goals
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| This event will take place in-person at 2:30pm ET at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Road. Registration required (please email [email protected]). This talk examines the pivotal role of policy in advancing both established, cost-effective technologies and emerging innovations within the buildings sector to achieve global climate goals. From energy-efficient systems and nature-based solutions to artificial intelligence and smart grids, it explores… Read More
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Urban Environments, Buildings and Climate Adaptation in Global South
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| This event will take place in-person at 12pm noon ET at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Road. This event is open to Harvard affiliates only. This presentation will cover Mayuri’s diverse range of research interests that include climate change adaptation in high thermal mass buildings of global South, high fidelity building simulations with a case study of HouseZero, decarbonization and urban… Read More
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Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment
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With mounting evidence of the impact of human activity on the global climate, the built environment is increasingly understood as a critical site for applied and conceptual research in questions of energy and ecology. In light of the increasing imperative to act on mitigating the causes and effects of climate change—and to devise new pathways for research and investigation—Harvard’s Center… Read More
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Paving the Way for Circular Architecture
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This event will take place in-person at 12pm noon ET in 112 Stubbins, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. How can digital transformation be the catalyst for a shift towards circular architecture? The construction sector is known to be fragmented, with different teams working independently, which often culminates in resource depletion, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and significant waste. However, by observing… Read More
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2023 MIT Global Change Outlook: Charting the Earth’s Future for Energy, Managed Resources, Climate, and Policy Prospects
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This event will take place in-person at 12pm noon at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Rd. Please RSVP to: [email protected]. The 2023 Global Change Outlook continues a process, started in 2012 by the MIT Joint Program, of providing a periodic update on the direction the planet is heading in terms of economic growth and its implications for resource use and the environment.… Read More
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Solar Gate: Bioinspired and Biobased 4D-printing for Weather-responsive Smart Shading
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This talk will take place at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Rd at 12pm noon. Registration is required (please email [email protected]). The Solar Gate is an adaptive shading system that assists in the indoor climate regulation of the livMatS Biomimetic Shell, located at the University of Freiburg, by shielding its interior from high heat loads during the summer while allowing thermal energy to… Read More
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Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: Climate Action Week 2023
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Register for the event. With mounting evidence of the impact of human activity on the global climate, the built environment is increasingly understood as a critical site for applied and conceptual research in questions of energy and ecology. In light of the increasing imperative to act on mitigating the causes and effects of climate change—and to devise new pathways for… Read More
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On Natural and Artificial Optimization
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For centuries engineers have taken inspiration from nature for design and problem solving. Today’s computing capabilities present the possibility to approach design optimization not from the perspective of imitating existing natural forms, but from the perspective of deploying effective algorithms inspired by natural processes. Petros discussed the development and fusion of learning and evolution algorithms for applications ranging from micro-fluidics to aerodynamics.… Read More
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Residential Energy Consumption and NREL Resources
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Buildings are responsible for the majority of electricity consumption in the U.S. and are a substantial contributor to carbon emissions. Understanding how buildings use energy and how that may change in the future is important for utilities, governments, and other stakeholders. This talk will discuss energy consumption in residential buildings, NREL’s residential building stock energy modeling tool, ResStock, and the… Read More