CRITICAL CONSERVATION NEWS

Yonghui Chen (MDes CC ’17) along with Longfeng Wu (DDes ’19) and Ruyi Chen (Upenn) won the First Prize and the Second Prize in Shanghai Urban Design Challenge 2017. This award administered by Shanghai Planning and Land Resources Administration Bureau, is one of the...

Yonghui Chen (MDes CC ’17) along with Longfeng Wu (DDes ’19) , Jung Hyun Woo (DDes ’19) , and Seung Kyum Kim (DDes ’19) won the Eris Development Center Student of the Year Award 2017. This annual award sponsored by Eris and administered by Harvard Center for...

Prathima Muniyappa (Critical Conservation ’18) has been awarded a January Term Research Grant by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies to work on a project in Loreto, Peru with the NGO–VASI (Amazonian Vision for Integrated Sustainability) that...

Boya Guo (Critical Conservation ’18; DDes ’20) has been awarded a January Term Research Grant by the Asia Center to conduct a cross-cultural comparison to build an understanding of the similarities and distinctions between Chinese copying and Japanese copying. She...

Esesua Ikpefan (Critical Conservation ’18) has been awarded a January Term Research Grant by the Center for African Studies  to conduct field work research, archival research and interviews in Lagos, Nigeria that are essential for the development of her research into...

Ranjani Srinivasan (Critical Conservation ’18) has been awarded a January Term Research Grant by the South Asia Institute to complete her field work and research at the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) in India. Ranjani’s research using the analogies of Waste and Value traces...

On March 10, 2017, Francesca Romana Forlini (MDes CC '17) presented her paper titled: 'Heritage of everyday life' at the ICOMOS conference "Places of Memory -- Protection, Conservation, Interpretation" that was held in Florence, Italy, from March 8-10, 2017. Forlini's...

Francesca Romana Forlini (MDes CC '17) and Javier Ors Ausín (MDes CC '17) presented research at the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Student Symposium 2017. Their papers were framed in different Symposium's panels, Ors Ausín...

Luisa Brando (MDes CC '18) exhibits work at the Ninth Harvard Student Art Show, that will be held at the Crossings Gallery & Gallery 224, 224 Western Ave., Allston, MA. Brando said:...

Guan Min (MDes CC'17) was awarded a winter grant by the Harvard University Asia Center to support his research project, Field Research in Anhui: Towards a New Geography. The research used Anhui province as a case study, the eastern region of China adjacent to the...

Javier Ors Ausín (MDes CC ’17) was awarded the Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award. The award was used to fund Javier's research trip to India in January 2017, in support of his final thesis at the Graduate School of Design. Javier’s academic focus at Harvard...

On November 15th, 2016, MDes Critical Conservation student Roseann Tariq Sijeeni did a public projection at the rear facade of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University. Sijeeni titled her projection: Summer Storm. A Different Kind of Storm. The...

Qinqin Wu (MDes CC ’15) explored reenactment through her thesis in Critical Conservation. Contemporary types of reenactments challenge the prevalent view that conservation is primarily about an event like a monument, or any object. Reenactment asserts that the...

Josselyn Ivanov (MDes ’16) receives the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Master in Design Studies Program. Ivanov's theis titled Un-Greening Golden Gate Park explores San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park as a case that exemplifies the state’s problematic...

Document Talks 02: Critical Conservation Research Itineraries Exhibition: 25 Oct - 30 Oct  Salon: 28 Oct, 5pm Between October 25th and 30th, MDes Critical Conservation students exhibited their work at the GSD fortyK Gallery, within the gallery’s framework “Document...

Jane Philbrick (MDes CC ‘16) with GSD exchange student Simon Zemp (ETH Zurich Architecture MSc ’15) performed collaborative research titled, “Mapping mobility in Suburban Territories; Case Study: Redding, CT” which became the platform for the spring 2015 panel, “Out...

Guan Min (MDes CC ’17) has been awarded a grant for summer study from The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund and the Harvard Asia Center. Min’s research, Field Investigation of China’s Historical and Cultural Villages in Zhejiang Province, proposes to study China’s Historical...

Elad Horn (MDes CC ’16) curated the exhibition ‘PopUp PoMo TLV’ last summer in The White City Center of Tel Aviv. The show presented the story of Tel Avivian Architecture in 1980s-90s as a search for a new language in the postmodern city. Postmodernism, in Israel, is...

Javier Ors Ausín (MDes CC ’17) along with Euneika Rogers-Sipp (Loeb Fellow ‘16), Brent Leggs (Loeb Fellow ‘11), Ramon La Roche (University of South Carolina), and Stephanie E. Yuhl (Professor at the College of the Holy Cross) led the panel under the title ‘Historic...