Tag: Jerold S. Kayden

  • Nation & World

    After the inauguration, the celebration

    The installation of Larry Bacow was followed by a giant block party in the Old Yard, with the entire Harvard community invited.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Avoid the ‘science of yesterday’

    A Dutch water expert with a federal role in rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy brought his wisdom to Harvard this semester.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The urban ocean

    A new course on how oceans are “urbanizing” underscores a decade-long Harvard theme: that cities have to cope with the multiple challenges of water — of there being too much or too little.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The 99 percent solution

    Occupy Wall Street, the inspiration for hundreds of similar economic protests, is “an angry work in progress” that drew experts’ attention during two programs at Harvard.

    6 minutes