Healthy Places GSD is a student group uncovering the agency of planning and design practitioners to promote healthier communities.
Healthy Places GSD explores issues at the intersection of health and the built environment to uncover the agency of planning and design practitioners to promote healthier communities. The student group takes an equity focused and cross disciplinary approach, bringing together students and faculty across campus with practitioners to raise the visibility of research, projects, and advocacy on health
04/10/2020
Have an idea for supporting people and communities during the pandemic? We're organizing a pandemic response participatory budgeting process! Applications are due Monday, April 13.
Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBjgEuBNWhr-1WA7q75lRYjOicavqT-OiwNNImbT6lHqN0Xg/viewform
03/11/2019
Tomorrow's the big event! This incredible panel will help us interpret the film and understand what we can take away from it.
Our screening of is this upcoming Monday, March 11 at 6:30 PM at Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Piper Auditorium. The short film will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion and a raffle including goodies from Bluebikes, CrimsonBikes, & Quad Bikes. Join us & bring a friend along for the ride!
03/08/2019
Don’t miss out: the screening this Monday will have three raffle prizes! Stay till the end of the panel for a chance to win an annual Bluebikes membership, a CrimsonBikes gift card, or a Quad Bikes coupon.
04/30/2018
Explore the sounds of Harvard Square with Dr. Erica Walker, an environmental exposure scientist. Dr. Walker will lead a walk with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | Harvard University demonstrating how NoiseScore can be used to map and analyze the urban soundscape of the Harvard campus.
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03/01/2018
TODAY at 6 PM: How does the planning profession respond as immigrant communities face increasing fear of deportation?
Immigration & Urban Planning: Challenges & Opportunities for MA Communities PLEASE REGISTER. Registration is free, but ticketed. As immigrant communities face increasing fear of deportation and immigration policy hurdles into the media spotlight, the planning profession must ask itself how to respond: • How do we answer rhetoric surrounding immigration & refugees?• What...
02/25/2018
Don't forget to register: the Immigration and Urban Planning workshop taking place at MIT DUSP is this Thursday.
Immigration & Urban Planning: Challenges & Opportunities for MA Communities PLEASE REGISTER. Registration is free, but ticketed. As immigrant communities face increasing fear of deportation and immigration policy hurdles into the media spotlight, the planning profession must ask itself how to respond: • How do we answer rhetoric surrounding immigration & refugees?• What...
02/25/2018
At yesterday’s Urban Conference, we heard the GSD’s own Lily Song contextualize the movement, Alexi Torres-Fleming talk about fighting to reclaim the , and Magdalena Ayed share how is refusing to take on regional burdens without benefit.