THE CRITICAL CONSERVATION JOURNAL
The CC Journal, a multi-media journal published annually on the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Critical Conservation website blog is devoted to the intellectual work developed by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design MDes program in Critical Conservation. It is edited by students from the graduating class. Each issue represents the collaborative work of students, faculty, and guests at the GSD.
“Underlying Narratives: CC Journal 2017” is edited by Boya Guo (MDes ’17; DDes ’20). The student research projects published here challenge established concepts of preservation and reveal how, too often, preservation is a form of social injustice. “Underlying Narratives” seeks to understand the underlying forces that are shaping our pluralistic and global world. The works are arranged in overlapping topics of Identity, Orientalism, Ruralism and Authenticity.
Guan Min (MDes CC ’17) awarded Winter Grant from the Harvard University Asia Center
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) awarded Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award
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...
Roseann Tariq Sijeeni (MDes CC ’17) presents a public projection at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts 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...
Reenactment
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) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Master in Design Studies Program
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...
MDes Critical Conservation students exhibit at the GSD for the first time
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) Mapping Mobility in Suburban Territories
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) awarded Summer Study Grant from the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
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’ in the White City center of Tel Aviv
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) Presented Research at the Slave Dwelling Project Conference
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...