Design Now

In each episode of Design Now faculty, researchers, alumni, and students engage in dialogue on a single topic of global significance. Episodes on the climate crisis, public health, housing, technology, urbanization, and transportation present new research

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Design Now Podcast, Episode 5: The future of library design

Posted May 11, 202300:42:24

Designers and architects spend their time thinking about how to fit the form of a building to its function. So what happens when that function...

Design Now Podcast, Episode 4: Designing a way out of the housing crisis

Posted October 6, 202200:38:29

Does America need a new vision of the ideal home? In episode four of “Design Now” podcast, we discuss the limitations of the single-family...

Design Now Podcast, Episode 3: Designing for Social Justice

Posted May 24, 202200:37:31

What does a just society look like? Often, it’s not about the things you notice first. A housing project might be built with every care paid...

Design Now Podcast, Episode 2: Public Health, the Pandemic, and Beyond

Posted February 18, 202200:23:13

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all thinking more actively about the hygiene of the buildings we spend time in. At the Harvard Graduate...

Design Now Podcast, Episode 1: How designers are tackling climate change with restoration ecology, food sovereignty, and sewage

Posted December 1, 202100:26:45

In the inaugural episode of this Harvard GSD podcast we hear from people working in and around the school about the existential threat posed by climate...