Tag: Design
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The State of Housing Design – Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (2023)
What is the US housing design landscape like? Specifically, what responses are architects giving to concerns like climate change, the affordability crisis, rising building regulations and costs, and the need for new unit types that more accurately reflect the demographic realities of today’s society? This event with Marc Norman and other…
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RADICAL MIDDLE GROUNDS: NEW AGENDAS FOR MEDIUM-DENSITY HOUSING
Radical Middle Grounds Symposium at UT Austin brought architects, historians, urban designers, and economists together for conversations about housing density, affordability, and the “middle grounds” between disciplines, scales and housing types. More information can be found here.
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Shaping Future Cities: Chicago
Chicago is experiencing simultaneously, a new spate of explosive growth in and around the CBD and continuing decline in already disadvantaged neighborhoods. This panel sponsored by Taubman College and the new Weiser Center for Real Estate explores the innovative ways the city is linking developments throughout the city through planning,…
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Relaunch of Harvard Design Magazine
The Harvard Design Magazine has just published issue #48: America. As part of the relaunch there was a panel discussion next Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30pm Eastern with the editors, and authors in this issue. I was in dialog with guest editors Mark Lee and Florencia Rodriguez, and authors, Paul…
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Inclusivity by design – solutions for cities in and after a pandemic
Explore the ways we can provide access, affordability and opportunity in U.S. cities. Experts weigh in on strategies and address historic inequities as well potential solutions for overcoming our current crises. Part of Gensler’s ongoing efforts in research and insight. Watch the entire video here or by clicking the image.
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RE: Housing Conference Surfaces Best Practices in Detroit and Beyond
Re: Housing: Detroit, a symposium held in Detroit and Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, convened innovators and researchers across the academy, real estate, architecture, planning, housing advocacy, and the city of Detroit in pursuit of real solutions to Detroit’s “Missing Middle” density housing. Full conference can be viewed…
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Work of Team PaD highlighted in Van Alen / NORA Future Ground report
Led by James Dart of the New Orleans-based design firm DARCH with Deborah Gans, LoriAnn Girvan, and Marc Norman, Team PaD explored policy as a design tool, considering alternative property, development, legal, and fiscal structures to reconsider the city’s established policies in the context of its collective post-Katrina capital of…
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Immanent Urbanisms Lecture Series Winter 2016
A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS AND TALKS ABOUT HOW BOTTOM-UP URBANISM IS REMAKING THE LANDSCAPES OF DESIGN, POWER AND ECONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (see the full schedule of lectures here) Kick off is Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2016 7:30 pm at THE RED VICTORIAN, 1665 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 with MARC NORMAN – DESIGNING AFFORDABILITY:…
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Metropolis Magazine Covers Designing Affordability Exhibition
Metropolis Magazine covers the Designing Affordability Exhibition at the Center for Architecture
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What is the Future of Impact Design Education?
Impact Design Hub asks about the future of education in a new feature series. The question? What is the future of impact design education? Or, more specifically, what will the education of impact designers look like ten years from now, in the year 2025 … Click here to see the responses…