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SUMMARY:Michael Wang 2026
DESCRIPTION:OverviewHarvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is hosting a public lecture by artist Michael Wang as part of the ArtsThursdays university-wide initiative. The event takes place at Piper Auditorium in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and sits at the intersection of contemporary art\, ecology\, climate systems\, and the built environment. FocusWang’s practice uses systems operating at regional and planetary scales as artistic media. His work addresses climate change\, ecological loss\, resource extraction\, and the relationship between capital and the natural world. Rather than representing these issues\, his projects operate directly within the systems they examine\, making infrastructure\, geology\, and energy networks into material. This approach connects to broader questions about how architecture and design engage with carbon and climate systems\, not just as constraints\, but as design territory in their own right. ProgramThe event is a single public lecture. Wang will discuss a body of work that includes Extinct in the Wild\, which focuses on species existing only under human care\, and 10000 li\, 100 billion kilowatt-hours\, which used Shanghai’s electric grid to produce frozen replicas of Yangtze river glaciers. His project\, the FirstForeste\, installed a Carboniferous-era forest inside a disused coal-gas plant\, and Carbon Copies linked the production of artworks directly to greenhouse gas emissions\, positioning all artists as what Wang calls “air artists.” These projects raise questions about authorship\, extraction\, and the ecological cost of cultural production that are directly relevant to architectural practice. “All artists are air artists. Every act of making releases something into the atmosphere.” For those interested in how art and architecture intersect around ecological and urban themes\, ArchUp’s coverage of art practices engaging interstitial urban spaces and ecology offers a useful parallel on how creative work can operate within and against environmental systems. Wang’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale\, the Shanghai Biennale\, Manifesta 12\, and the Fondazione Prada. Those tracking how sustainable design confronts climate and resource challenges will find Wang’s practice a distinct counterpoint to conventional green architecture discourse. AudienceThe lecture is open to the public and available via livestream. It is relevant to architects\, designers\, artists\, researchers\, and students engaged with ecology\, climate\, and the cultural dimensions of the built environment. Event Details\n\n\nDate\nApril 16\, 2026\n\n\nTime\n6:30 – 8:00 PM EDT\n\n\nVenue\nPiper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, Harvard GSD\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nEvent Type\nPublic Lecture\n\n\nSeries\nArtsThursdays\n\n\nAccess\nIn-person and Livestream\n\n\nFees\nFree\, registration required\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial InsightWang’s practice occupies an unusual position in relation to architecture: it does not design buildings or spaces\, but it operates at the same scales and within the same material systems that architecture depends on. His use of glaciers\, power grids\, coal plants\, and endangered species as artistic media reframes the built environment not as a backdrop to ecological crisis but as one of its primary mechanisms. For a design school audience\, this raises a direct and uncomfortable question: if the act of building is itself an ecological act with measurable atmospheric consequences\, what distinguishes responsible design from what Wang calls “air art”? The lecture’s placement within an arts initiative rather than a strictly architectural programme is itself a signal that these questions do not yet have a settled home within design education. Closing NoteThe lecture introduces a body of work that operates outside conventional design practice while remaining deeply relevant to it. Its positioning at a design school suggests a growing institutional interest in expanding what counts as architectural thinking.
URL:https://archup.net/event/michael-wang-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Against the Environmentalism of the Rich 2026
DESCRIPTION:OverviewHarvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is hosting a public lecture by philosopher and critical theorist Nancy Fraser as part of the Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture series. The event takes place at Piper Auditorium in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and belongs to the fields of environmental theory\, political philosophy\, and urban design discourse. FocusThe lecture critically examines dominant strands of environmentalism\, arguing that mainstream green agendas often serve the interests of wealthy individuals and institutions while leaving structural inequalities intact. Fraser positions environmental reform within a broader critique of capitalism and social justice\, asking who benefits from current sustainability frameworks and who bears their costs. This connects directly to questions that sustainable design debates in architecture are increasingly being asked to confront\, particularly around who green building standards are actually designed for and at what social cost. ProgramThe event is structured as a single lecture followed by open discussion\, hosted by GSD Dean Sarah M. Whiting. Fraser will draw on her recent work in critical social theory to challenge how environmental movements are shaped by class interest\, and what a more equitable environmentalism might look like in practice. For those tracking how these ideas intersect with the built environment\, ArchUp’s coverage of sustainable urban design and its social dimensions offers useful context on how environmental priorities translate\, or fail to translate\, into equitable city-making. \n“The question is not whether we protect the environment. The question is who gets to define what that protection looks like\, and who pays for it.” \nAudienceThe lecture is open to the public and available via livestream. It is relevant to architects\, urban planners\, designers\, theorists\, and anyone working at the intersection of environmental practice and social equity. Event Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nApril 15\, 2026\n\n\nTime\n6:30 – 8:00 PM EDT\n\n\nVenue\nPiper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, Harvard GSD\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nEvent Type\nPublic Lecture\n\n\nSeries\nSenior Loeb Scholar Lecture\n\n\nAccess\nIn-person and Livestream\n\n\nFees\nFree\, registration required\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial InsightBringing a critical social theorist into a design school lecture series is a significant programmatic signal. Fraser’s work challenges the assumption that green architecture and sustainable urbanism are inherently progressive\, pointing instead to how these fields can reproduce class privilege through high-cost certifications\, premium green developments\, and environmental policies that displace rather than include lower-income communities. For architecture as a discipline\, this raises uncomfortable questions about whether green building practice addresses structural inequality or merely aestheticises it. The lecture does not resolve these tensions\, but its positioning within an elite design institution adds a layer of irony that is worth sitting with critically. Closing NoteThe lecture occupies a narrow but pointed space in current environmental and design discourse. Its relevance extends well beyond the academy to any practitioner making decisions about who sustainable design actually serves.
URL:https://archup.net/event/against-the-environmentalism-of-the-rich-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Race in American Cities 2026
DESCRIPTION:OverviewHarvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is hosting a public lecture by Deborah N. Archer as part of the Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture series. The event takes place in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and sits within the fields of urban planning\, infrastructure design\, and spatial justice. FocusThe lecture draws on Archer’s book Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality\, examining how transportation networks in American cities have historically shaped and deepened racial segregation. It positions infrastructure not as a neutral technical system\, but as a spatial instrument with measurable social consequences. This connects directly to broader questions that sustainable urban planning frameworks are increasingly being asked to address\, particularly around equitable access\, mobility\, and community connectivity. ProgramThe event is structured as a single lecture followed by a discussion. Archer will address how highway construction\, transit disinvestment\, and infrastructure placement have contributed to persistent racial inequality in American cities\, and what these findings mean for designers and planners working today. For context on how car-dependent urban planning has shaped cities over decades\, the analysis of Brasília’s modernist urban model offers a useful parallel on infrastructure-driven spatial separation and its long-term social effects. \n“Transportation infrastructure is not just about movement. It is about who gets to belong\, and where.” \nThe lecture is hosted by Carole Voulgaris of the GSD’s Department of Urban Planning and Design. AudienceThe lecture is open to the public and available via livestream. It is relevant to urban planners\, architects\, designers\, policy researchers\, and students with an interest in the intersection of infrastructure and social equity. Event Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nApril 14\, 2026\n\n\nTime\n6:30 – 8:00 PM EDT\n\n\nVenue\nPiper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, Harvard GSD\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nEvent Type\nPublic Lecture\n\n\nAccess\nIn-person and Livestream\n\n\nFees\nFree\, registration required\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial InsightPlacing a legal scholar and civil rights practitioner at the podium of an urban design lecture series is a notable programmatic choice. It signals a shift in how design institutions are acknowledging that spatial outcomes cannot be understood without reference to legal\, political\, and racial histories. Archer’s work on transportation and racial inequality challenges planners and architects to examine their own role in perpetuating or dismantling segregation through infrastructure decisions. The lecture raises questions that go beyond design methodology\, touching on who commissions infrastructure\, who benefits from it\, and who absorbs its costs. Those following this thread will find additional grounding in ArchUp’s coverage of urban block typologies and city development patterns\, which contextualises how spatial decisions accumulate over time into systems of inclusion or exclusion. Closing NoteThe lecture occupies a niche but significant position in current urban design discourse. Its relevance extends beyond the American context to any city where infrastructure investment has historically followed lines of social division.
URL:https://archup.net/event/transportation-infrastructure-and-race-in-american-cities-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Together by Design: Housing to Connect Generations 2026
DESCRIPTION:OverviewHarvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is hosting Living Together by Design: Housing to Connect Generations as part of its Spring 2026 public programs. The event takes place in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and belongs to the fields of architecture\, urban planning\, and housing design. FocusThe symposium focuses on intergenerational design and how built environments can be structured to support multigenerational living. It asks how homes and communities can be shaped\, or reshaped\, to accommodate the daily realities of families spanning multiple generations under one roof or within one neighbourhood. This sits within a wider shift in how the field is rethinking residential typologies. The Housing Education Prize 2026 reflects a similar push\, positioning housing as a core subject of architectural education and practice rather than a peripheral one. ProgramThe event is structured as a half-day symposium. It brings together practitioners and researchers from architecture\, urban planning\, homebuilding\, environmental gerontology\, and public health. Panels will address design responses to multigenerational households at multiple scales\, from the individual unit to the broader community. The format combines expert-led discussion with cross-disciplinary dialogue. For context on how academic institutions are framing housing challenges right now\, the Architecture section on ArchUp tracks ongoing developments across research\, practice\, and policy. AudienceThe symposium is intended for architecture and planning professionals\, researchers\, academics\, and students. It is open to the public and available via livestream for those outside Cambridge. Event Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nApril 10\, 2026\n\n\nTime\n1:00 – 5:00 PM EDT\n\n\nVenue\nHarvard GSD\, Gund Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nEvent Type\nSymposium\n\n\nAccess\nIn-person and Livestream\n\n\nFees\nFree\, RSVP required for in-person\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial InsightFraming intergenerational housing as a design problem rather than a policy one marks a notable repositioning of architecture’s role in the housing conversation. This symposium places the discipline at the center of a social challenge that has historically been managed through welfare systems and urban planning codes. The half-day format\, while focused\, risks compressing a structurally complex issue into a single session. Land economics\, zoning constraints\, and development incentives rarely align with the flexible spatial models the discourse promotes. The GSD’s decision to programme this topic in Spring 2026 reflects growing institutional attention\, though the gap between academic framing and scalable built outcomes remains wide. Those following this thread can also read about how residential projects are being reconsidered globally through adaptive and community-oriented design strategies. Closing NoteThe symposium is a modest-scale academic event with a broad disciplinary reach. Its relevance lies less in its size and more in its positioning of housing design as a field requiring cross-sector thinking.
URL:https://archup.net/event/living-together-by-design-housing-to-connect-generations-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Orff "Throughlines" 2026
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nHarvard GSD’s Department of Landscape Architecture presents a public lecture by Kate Orff\, founder of SCAPE and Professor at Columbia GSAPP\, titled “Throughlines.” The lecture takes place in Piper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, on April 7\, 2026\, and is free and open to the public\, with a live stream available on the GSD event page at start time. The event is hosted by GSD faculty member Gary R. Hilderbrand and supported by the Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Makers Fund. \nThe lecture carries particular weight as a return: Orff was a student at Gund Hall in the mid-1990s\, and the title “Throughlines” signals a retrospective arc\, drawing connections across three decades of practice\, research\, writing\, and activism in landscape architecture. It is structured as a reflective account of how a body of work coheres over time rather than as a project presentation. \nFocus\nThe lecture draws throughlines across 30 years of work since Orff’s time at the GSD\, linking research\, publications\, and landscape projects along a trajectory of thought and action. The central concern running through SCAPE’s practice is retooling landscape architecture as a discipline to respond to climate uncertainty\, creating spaces that simultaneously address ecological resilience and social life. \nOrff’s practice has consistently operated across scales\, from site-specific public installations to large-scale coastal infrastructure\, and across modes\, from built work to publications\, advocacy\, and research. The “Throughlines” framing suggests the lecture will not compartmentalize these but will instead trace the conceptual and methodological threads that connect them\, offering a model of how a contemporary landscape practice can maintain coherence across radically different project types and contexts. \nRetooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life.\nKate Orff\, SCAPE / GSD Lecture Description\, 2026 \nProgram\nLecture Format\nThe lecture runs ninety minutes in Piper Auditorium. Unlike typical project-by-project presentations\, the “Throughlines” format is explicitly retrospective\, meaning Orff will draw connections across her 30-year body of work rather than focus on a single project or recent output. The GSD notes that no recording of the event will be available after the lecture\, making live attendance or streaming the only access point. \nRelated Work\nThe lecture connects to a prior GSD appearance by Orff in 2017 (the Sylvester Baxter Lecture\, “Toward an Urban Ecology”) and to the published GSD feature “Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter Reality” (December 2024)\, which documented SCAPE’s Rockaway studio and community engagement work. These reference points help situate the 2026 lecture within an ongoing engagement between Orff’s practice and the GSD’s research agenda around urban ecology and climate resilience. \nSpeaker\nKate Orff is the founder of SCAPE\, a landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She is a Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)\, with a joint appointment in Columbia’s Climate School. In 2017\, she became the first landscape architect to receive the MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Fellowship. Her work spans coastal resilience infrastructure\, design research\, public space\, and community engagement\, with a sustained focus on the intersections of ecology\, climate\, and social equity in the built environment. \nAudience\nThe lecture is open to the public with live streaming\, making it accessible beyond the GSD campus. Its primary audience is landscape architecture students\, practitioners\, and researchers engaged with climate resilience\, ecological urbanism\, and the role of design practice in addressing systemic environmental challenges. The retrospective format also makes it valuable for those interested in how a significant contemporary practice has evolved methodologically over three decades. \nEvent Details\n\n\n\nDate & Time\nApril 7\, 2026\, 6:30–8:00 pm EDT\n\n\nVenue\nPiper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, 48 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nAdmission\nFree and open to the public\n\n\nRegistration\nVia Eventbrite\n\n\nLive Stream\nAvailable on GSD event page at start time / closed captioning available / no recording after event\n\n\nHost\nGary R. Hilderbrand\, Harvard GSD\n\n\nSpeaker\nKate Orff\, SCAPE / Columbia GSAPP\n\n\nDepartment\nLandscape Architecture\, Harvard GSD\n\n\nSupported by\nMelissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Makers Fund\n\n\nAccessibility\nASL interpreters and CART providers available with two weeks notice: (617) 496-2414\n\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight\nA retrospective lecture titled “Throughlines” at one’s alma mater carries an implicit institutional risk: it can easily become a career highlights reel rather than a rigorous self-examination. What makes Orff’s work a credible subject for this format is that the throughlines are genuinely substantive: the relationship between ecological systems and social equity has been a consistent pressure in SCAPE’s work across scales\, not merely rhetorical positioning. The MacArthur recognition and the Columbia Climate School appointment suggest the practice has been absorbed into institutional frameworks; whether the lecture addresses the tensions that absorption creates\, or simply celebrates the arc\, is the question that would make it most interesting for a critical audience. \n\n\nClosing Note\nKate Orff’s return to Gund Hall thirty years after studying there is not merely symbolic. The landscape discipline has shifted substantially in that time\, with climate resilience moving from a marginal concern to a central institutional priority. How SCAPE’s early commitments relate to that shift\, whether they anticipated it\, shaped it\, or were subsequently framed by it\, is precisely what a “throughlines” account is positioned to address. The GSD’s decision not to record the lecture gives it an unusual urgency for a public program of this kind.
URL:https://archup.net/event/kate-orff-throughlines-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chatpong Chuenrudeemol "Bangkok Bastards" 2026
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nHarvard GSD’s Department of Architecture presents a public lecture by Chatpong Chuenrudeemol\, founder of Bangkok-based CHAT Architects\, titled “Bangkok Bastards.” The lecture takes place in Piper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, on March 31\, 2026\, and is free and open to the public\, with a live stream available on the GSD event page. It is hosted by GSD faculty member Grace La. \nThe lecture draws on Chuenrudeemol’s decade-long research into informal\, vernacular\, and unsanctioned construction in Bangkok: structures built by everyday people from locally sourced and scavenged materials to solve immediate urban problems. This body of work forms the intellectual foundation of CHAT Architects’ design methodology and has expanded in recent years into rural Thailand under the name “Rural Crossbreeds.” \nFocus\n“Bangkok Bastards” are Chuenrudeemol’s term for a category of vernacular urban buildings that fall outside official architectural discourse: temporary construction worker shelters\, informal settlements\, underground sex-motels\, and other improvised spatial solutions scattered throughout Bangkok. Built cheaply\, often illegally\, and without professional architects\, they are typically dismissed as urban blight. \nChuenrudeemol’s argument is that these structures represent some of the most honest and resourceful examples of built problem-solving in Thailand’s urban landscape. Far from being failures of design\, they are sophisticated responses to conditions that formal architecture rarely addresses: extreme cost constraints\, legal ambiguity\, rapid change\, and direct user agency. \nThe practice methodology Chuenrudeemol calls “Bastardizing the Bastard” involves taking existing vernacular types and crossbreeding them with new programs\, urban conditions\, or ecological concerns to generate hybrid architectural projects that remain rooted in local material and social logic rather than imported formal language. \nBastards are honest\, clever\, and improvisational responses to the city’s challenges\, and perhaps the most authentic and relevant examples of vernacular architecture in Thailand’s urban landscape.\nChatpong Chuenrudeemol\, GSD Lecture Description\, 2026 \nProgram\nLecture\nChuenrudeemol will present the development of the Bangkok Bastards research and its application to CHAT Architects’ built work\, tracing the move from documentation of informal typologies to design practice. The lecture will also address the firm’s expansion into rural Thailand through the Rural Crossbreeds initiative\, which focuses on preserving indigenous cultural knowledge and generating new economic models for rural communities through design research. \nRelated Studio\nThe lecture connects to an active GSD Option Studio (STU-1315\, Spring 2026\, 8 units) in the Department of Architecture\, suggesting the Bastards research is being engaged at a pedagogical level\, not only as a public lecture topic. \nSpeaker\nChatpong (Chat) Chuenrudeemol is the founder of CHAT Architects\, a Bangkok-based practice engaged in multi-scalar projects derived from the Bangkok Bastards research. His work has received the Silpathorn Award\, Thailand’s highest national recognition for contemporary artists\, presented by the Ministry of Culture. CHAT’s work has also won multiple international awards. Chuenrudeemol’s practice spans design research\, built projects\, and community-based initiatives in both urban and rural contexts across Thailand. \nAudience\nThe lecture is open to the public and will be live streamed\, making it accessible beyond the GSD campus. Its primary audience is architecture students\, researchers\, and practitioners interested in vernacular urbanism\, informal settlements\, and non-Western design methodologies. A broader audience engaged with urban informality and Southeast Asian urbanism will also find the lecture directly relevant. \nEvent Details\n\n\n\nDate & Time\nMarch 31\, 2026\, 6:30–8:00 pm EDT\n\n\nVenue\nPiper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, 48 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nAdmission\nFree and open to the public\n\n\nRegistration\nVia Eventbrite\n\n\nLive Stream\nAvailable on GSD event page at start time / closed captioning available\n\n\nHost\nGrace La\, Harvard GSD\n\n\nSpeaker\nChatpong Chuenrudeemol\, CHAT Architects\, Bangkok\n\n\nDepartment\nArchitecture\, Harvard GSD\n\n\nAccessibility\nASL interpreters and CART providers available with two weeks notice: (617) 496-2414\n\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight\nWhat distinguishes the Bangkok Bastards framework from typical vernacular architecture studies is its methodological move: Chuenrudeemol does not stop at documentation\, he mines informal typologies as design generators. The term “Bastardizing the Bastard” is provocative but precise; it names a process of deliberate hybridization that resists both nostalgic preservation and tabula rasa formalism. The risk\, however\, is that institutional framing\, GSD lecture hall\, award citations\, international recognition\, domesticates the very illegitimacy that makes Bastards architecturally interesting. Whether the Rural Crossbreeds extension holds the same tension outside Bangkok’s specific urban pressure is a question the lecture may or may not address directly. \n\n\nClosing Note\n“Bangkok Bastards” arrives at a moment when informal urbanism is gaining renewed academic attention\, but often at the cost of the political edges that make it matter. Chuenrudeemol’s work is notable precisely because it does not romanticize its subject: it treats Bangkok’s illegal and improvised structures as legitimate architectural knowledge\, not as symptoms of urban failure. Whether that position survives the translation into a Harvard lecture series remains an open and productive question.
URL:https://archup.net/event/chatpong-chuenrudeemol-bangkok-bastards-2026/
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben: A Fresh Start for Our Cities 2026
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThe Harvard Graduate School of Design is having an event called “A Fresh Start for Our Cities”. It is an open-house lecture that anyone can attend. This event is happening at Piper Auditorium\, which is located in Gund Hall in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. The Harvard Graduate School of Design is doing this as part of titspublic program series for Spring 2026. This event is really about design and cities\, and also about climate policy and landscape architecture. The Harvard Graduate School of Design is having this event to talk about these topics. \nFocus\nThe lecture is about what Bill McKibben says in his book “Here Comes the Sun”. He thinks that solar and wind energy are getting bigger\, and this is a change in the climate crisis. Bill McKibben says that this change is a thing for cities. He thinks that cities can make this change happen now\, not just talk about it. \nThe talk after the lecture is about what cities need to do to make this change happen. It is about money and rules. This is important for people who design buildings and cities to think about how to make them work with the environment and use energy in a way. The lecture and talk are related to what architects research about cities and energy currently. \nFor once in his life\, he is spreading good news\, the recent boom in solar and wind power has given him hope for the planet’s future.\nGSD Event Description\, March 2026 \nProgram\nLecture\nBill McKibben gives the talk. He talks about ” Comes the Sun”. He says that renewable energy is being used more and more. This is news for cities\, communities\, and buildings. The talk is part of the GSD’s Open House series. This series is open to everyone\, notjust students. \nPanel Discussion\nAfter the talk\, Bill McKibben is joined by Rebecca Henderson and Oliver Wainwright. They discuss the stage. Gary R. Hilderbrand hosts the discussion. He is a professor at the GSD Department of Landscape Architecture. The panelists are: \n\n\nBill McKibben\nAuthor\, “Here Comes the Sun” / Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence\, Middlebury College / Founder\, 350.org and Third Act\n\n\nRebecca Henderson\nUniversity Professor\, Harvard University / Research Fellow\, National Bureau of Economic Research / Author\, “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire”\n\n\nOliver Wainwright\nArchitecture and Design Critic\, The Guardian / Loeb Fellow 2026\, Harvard GSD\n\n\nThe event is being put on with help from the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. This is part of their series called “Climate Crossroads: Debating Energy’s Next Frontier”. The Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Makers Fund is also helping out. \nThese days\, people are talking more about how climate change and building design are connected. This is being discussed in schools around the world. \nYou can watch the event live on the GSD event page when it starts. The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the GSD event page will have a stream with closed captioning so everyone can follow along. \nAudience\nThe event is free for everyone. It is meant for students studying architecture and landscape architecture. Urban planners and researchers focusing on climate can also attend. Anyone working with design\, energy\, and buildings should come too. \nEvent Details\n\n\n\nDate\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026\n\n\nTime\n6:30 – 8:00 p.m. EDT\n\n\nVenue\nPiper Auditorium\, Gund Hall\, 48 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n\nHost\nHarvard Graduate School of Design\n\n\nEvent Type\nOpen House Lecture and Panel Discussion\n\n\nLive Stream\nAvailable onthe  GSD event page\n\n\nAccess\nFree and open to the public\n\n\nRegistration\nVia Eventbrite\n\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight\nThe way McKibben talks about the energy transition is very simple; he thinks it is all good. The truth is that architecture and urban planning have to deal with a lot of complicated issues. When we build infrastructure\, it can make people lose their homes. Big renewable energy projects need a lot of land. And the good things about the energy transition are not shared equally among people; some get more benefits than others. McKibben does not talk about these problems. The people on the panel are mostly economists and critics\, not planners or housing experts. So they look at how citiesre changing in a way that favors the market\,t not fairness\, for everyone. The energy transition is a deal\, and we need to think about how it affects people and places asitn does. \n\n\nClosing Note\nThe event is part of the GSD’s Open House program. It is all about climate communication. This shows that the people in charge want to connect what students learn about design with what the government’s doing. The fact that McKibben is speaking at a design school in a place where people talk about policy is interesting. It seems like he wants to talk about energy transition in terms of the spaces around us. The question is whether the people on the panel will really think about the built environment as a part of the energy story or if they will just see it as a background. The built environment and climate communication are important to the energy story.
URL:https://archup.net/event/bill-mckibben-a-fresh-start-for-our-cities-2026/
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Xaveer De Geyter Projects 2026
DESCRIPTION:Event OverviewJoin us for a lecture featuring recent projects by architect Xaveer De Geyter\, who established XDGA in 1989 as an international architectural and urban design company that operates from its headquarters in Brussels and Paris. The lecture will show forward-looking urban design and architectural design solutions which will examine public areas and educational facilities and public spaces. For more insights on urban design and architecture\, see our related articles on Urban Design\, Public Spaces\, and Architecture. SpeakerXaveer De Geyter is the principal architect who established XDGA architectural practice. His major completed projects include the Brussels Subway Station and Public Square Place Rogier\, Europa College in Bruges\, the Kitchen Tower in Brussels\, and the Headquarters of the Province of Antwerp. After finishing his work at Office for Metropolitan Architecture between 1984 and 1991 he established his own architectural practice XDGA. De Geyter has taught at Sint-Lucas Brussels\, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\, the Berlage Institute\, and ETH Zurich\, and lectured throughout Europe and the United States. XDGA has produced six monographs and three travelling solo exhibitions in addition to its research project After Sprawl. The organization received professional recognition through multiple awards including the Belgian Award for Architecture\, Bigmat Award\, Mies Van Der Rohe Award\, and Brussels Architecture Award. Event Details\n\n\nLocation\nPiper Auditorium\, Harvard University\n\n\nDate & Time\nMarch 12\, 2026\, 6:30 – 8:00 PM EDT\n\n\nFees\nFree and open to the public\n\n\nHost\nSarah M. Whiting\n\n\nAccessibility\nRequests for accommodations\, ASL interpreters\, and CART must be made at least two weeks in advance.\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial InsightThe Xaveer De Geyter Projects 2026 lecture presents recent work by architect Xaveer De Geyter\, founder of XDGA\, an international architecture and urban design firm based in Brussels and Paris. The presentation analyzes new urban design approaches and their effect on architectural development which includes public areas and learning facilities and public gathering spaces. Attendees gain insight into how XDGA integrates research\, experimentation\, and design in projects such as the Brussels Subway Station and Place Rogier\, Europa College in Bruges\, the Kitchen Tower in Brussels\, and the Headquarters of the Province of Antwerp\, alongside the firm’s awards\, publications\, and curated exhibitions. Explore the Latest Architecture Exhibitions & ConferencesArchUp offers daily updates on top global architectural exhibitions\, design conferences\, and professional art and design forums. Follow key architecture competitions\, check official results\, and stay informed through the latest architectural news worldwide. ArchUp is your encyclopedic hub for discovering events and design-driven opportunities across the globe.
URL:https://archup.net/event/lecture-xaveer-de-geyter-projects-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Feral Clouds 2026
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nFeral Clouds explores how data processing and storage systems operate under the dual challenges of technological competition and climate change. The lecture proposes a rethinking of digital culture away from efficiency‑driven models toward approaches that consider ecological impact\, limits\, and transformation. The project investigates digital infrastructure through its combination of activism and policy development work and design prototype testing and educational program activities.\n\nThe concept of “ferality” serves two purposes as it describes how AI-focused industries develop excessive practices while it shows different ways to create energy and manage data. The study of low technology computation and permaculture principles and decay-based systems provides multiple perspectives. The lecture presents data infrastructure as a component that connects with both environmental systems and social systems. For related discussions\, see our articles on architecture\, urban design\, and technology.\n Event Details\n\n\nItem\nDetails\n\n\nSpeaker\nMarina Otero Verzier\n\n\nDate & Time\nMarch 9\, 2026\, 6:30 – 8:00 PM EDT\n\n\nLocation\nPiper Auditorium\, Harvard University\n\n\nHost\nSarah M. Whiting\n\n\nFees\nFree and open to the public\n\n\nLanguage\nEnglish\n\n\nContext\nMarina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher whose work intersects critical spatial practices\, ecology\, technology\, and activism. She received the Wheelwright Prize for research on data storage futures\, and her work explores alternative infrastructures that challenge conventional technological imaginaries. Her perspective connects design to broader environmental and social critique.\n ✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight\nThe research project Feral Clouds 2026 investigates three aspects of data infrastructures which operate under current technological and climate-related challenges. Marina Otero Verzier applies the concept of “ferality” to assess the excessive practices of the AI industry while investigating alternative solutions which include computing based on permaculture principles and the use of simple technological systems and the development of systems which support natural decay and transformation processes. The lecture establishes digital culture as an element of environmental and social systems while pushing designers and technologists to develop new models which focus on responsibility and resilience and their understanding of environmental impacts throughout time.\n Closing Note\nFeral Clouds 2026 invites participants to rethink digital infrastructure as an ecological and cultural concern\, not just a technical one. The lecture demonstrates how data systems function in environmental and social contexts to shift design thinking from its current focus on efficiency toward responsible design practices which consider long-term consequences.\n Explore the Latest Architecture Exhibitions & Conferences\n\nArchUp offers daily updates on top global architectural exhibitions\, design conferences\, and professional art and design forums. Follow key architecture competitions\, check official results\, and stay informed through the latest architectural news worldwide. ArchUp is your encyclopedic hub for discovering events and design-driven opportunities across the globe.
URL:https://archup.net/event/lecture-feral-clouds-2026/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Piper Auditorium\, Harvard University\, 48 Quincy St\, MA\, United States
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