Tag: Creativity and Meaning

  • Science & Tech

    Redesigning design contests

    A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.

  • Arts & Culture

    Dimensions of war, including peace

    A new Harvard-wide seminar program, slated for three years, takes on a constellation of interdisciplinary issues around violence and nonviolence.

  • Nation & World

    Vietnam, the ongoing memory

    For students so young, an old war — captured in a history and literature course on Vietnam this fall — continues to have resonance and to provide “a punch in the gut.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Foreshadowing feminism

    Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.

  • Nation & World

    From Mexico to Harvard, and back

    There are more than 1,200 Harvard graduates in Mexico, a well-connected group that rises to high positions and has an appetite for good works.

  • Nation & World

    Summering (with work) in Mexico

    Harvard students discuss their summer of research in Mexico, where they gained new insights, developed fresh confidence, and realized they wanted to return.

  • Science & Tech

    Scholarly access to all

    Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a free and open portal for the University’s peer-reviewed literature, is drawing more worldwide downloads than ever.

  • Arts & Culture

    Early experiments in catching the eye

    A new exhibit at the Business School illustrates the rise in America of artful, profit-making, culture-shaking advertising from 1865 to 1910.

  • Nation & World

    Old Harvard, old France, old crime

    An exhibit drawn from the holdings of the Harvard Law School Library combines detailed scholarship with a touch of scandal.

  • Science & Tech

    When engineering meets art

    Music blared, LEDs blinked, and jaws dropped Tuesday at the SEAS Design and Project Fair, a celebration of creative problem-solving by students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences…

  • Arts & Culture

    For writers and students, a break from solitude

    Writers in the Parlor connects accomplished novelists and story writers with students.

  • Campus & Community

    At 125, Johnston Gate gets a facelift

    Johnston Gate, Harvard’s main portal since it was finished in 1889, is getting a landscaping facelift to celebrate its 125 years.

  • Science & Tech

    Books meet bytes

    Experts came together at Radcliffe to peer into the future of digital library collections.

  • Science & Tech

    Less energy, more creativity

    Two teams of students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design provided a close look — part celebration, part cerebration — at two house designs that won international competitions.

  • Science & Tech

    Out of disaster, a new design

    A team of students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, just back from Japan, took home first prize in an international competition for solutions to sustainable recovery in a region of Japan devastated by a triple disaster in 2011.

  • Arts & Culture

    Big skies, dusty trails

    “Fortunes of the Western,” a new series at the Harvard Film Archive, draws back the curtain on the golden age of Westerns following World War II. The series continues through March 22.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bernard Berenson, recalled

    Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, a treasure of Italian Renaissance scholarship since 1961, has launched an oral history site on its origins with Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, and its transition from villa to a center for scholars.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art, turned on its ear

    Photographer and arts historian Deborah Willis launches the Hutchins Center’s spring series of noontime lectures with a look at modern artists and their radical, racial alterations of iconic art.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The Thinking Hand’

    A visit by a master of traditional Japanese carpentry launches an unusual Harvard exhibit of tools, techniques, and woods that have been used for centuries.

  • Science & Tech

    Architectural fever dreams

    Master’s degree students in architecture present thesis topics in a traditional daylong January event that draws critical crossfire and praise.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘The weapon of love’

    On Sunday, the eve of the national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., an authority on King’s preaching will deliver a sermon at Harvard on behalf of the martyred icon of civil rights, who had deep ties to Harvard and to New England.

  • Arts & Culture

    Sweet hymns of joy

    Harvard had a role in the creation of a few of the holiday season’s most durable carols and light tunes, including the haunting English words to “O Holy Night.”

  • Science & Tech

    Probing how the past behaved

    Harvard faculty and graduate students lectured, organized, and moderated in big ways throughout a four-day annual meeting in Boston of the History of Science Society.

  • Arts & Culture

    A Paris errand

    At a UNESCO ceremony in Paris, Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha underscored the global need for a “new humanism” that peacefully connects a culturally diverse world.

  • Arts & Culture

    Haunted by the siege

    A Davis Center photo exhibit — wrenching and frank — brings back the 872-day Siege of Leningrad through the eyes of women who survived it.

  • Arts & Culture

    Change is on the runway

    A Harvard conference will emphasize the rising influence of landscape architects in airport design and decommissioning.

  • Campus & Community

    A poet’s own epitaphs

    Two months after his death, poet Seamus Heaney returned to Harvard, in spirit, for a celebration by friends who loved him “on and off the page.”

  • Arts & Culture

    National digital library gains traction

    The Digital Public Library of America, with Harvard in its heritage, celebrates its first six months with an idea conference in Boston.

  • Arts & Culture

    The digital Dickinson

    Houghton Library and Harvard University Press are two of the leading partners in the new Emily Dickinson Archive, a joint venture with other institutions that brings together most of her poem manuscripts.

  • Arts & Culture

    When all turn right, go left

    Avant-garde visual artist Robert Wilson delivered a talk at the Graduate School of Design, and jarred his audience into new imaginative spaces.