Tag: Pierre Belanger

  • Nation & World

    Grants back study-abroad initiatives in Italy, Canada

    Plans for immersive student experiences in Canada’s far north and in Italy received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making print modern

    In an age of bits and bytes and pixels and text on screens, Harvard Design Magazine — relaunched in a new format last year ― fervently embraces the thingness of print, the quotidian actuality of paper and ink.

    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

    Ideas to build on

    In the face of a coming century of rising seas, a Harvard design studio opens the door to creative speculation on how to remake the infrastructures of coastline cities.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A military base, reborn

    Harvard design students imagine multiple futures for a longtime New England military base.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A river runs through it

    Harvard has developed a simmering romance with the Charles River and has a growing interest in it as a living laboratory, after centuries of the waterway serving as the University’s humble back door.

    11 minutes
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    Racing down the river

    Master swimmers will race in the Charles River, where one Harvard professor sees an opportunity for lessons.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rising seas, raising hopes

    Harvard design students, capping a two-year project, encourage the Dutch to look beyond engineering to cope with rising sea levels.

    7 minutes