Forest Futures: Will the Forest Save Us All?
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will host a two-day academic conference alongside its new exhibition, Forest Futures.
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Future of the American City Cape Ann Conversations: Mobilizing Power for Climate Action
VirtualPlease join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 12:30-2:00 PM ET for a virtual presentation by Harvard’s Julie Battilana. Julie Battilana is a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and social innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation + Change Initiative. Professor Battilana's research examines the politics of change in organizations and in society. She’s especially focused on organizations and individuals that initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norm—that break with the status quo.
Cape Ann Conversations are hosted by the Harvard GSD’s Office For Urbanization. These convenings form a portion of the ongoing multi-year climate adaptation research project for Cape Ann, Massachusetts undertaken in collaboration with TownGreen, the Water Alliance, and the Town of Manchester-by-the-Sea.
Multidisciplinary Geodesign Workshop for Strategic Global Climate Change Mitigation
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, GSD, 42 Quincy St., CambridgeThis 2-day workshop (January 10 and January 13) will expose participants from all schools, departments and disciplines at Harvard to an emergent data-driven geodesign framework for designing at the largest size imaginable – global – to identify feasible strategies to substantially reduce GHG emissions, the single most important global action available for countering cataclysmic global warming.
Participants will be assigned to represent national ‘climate-regions’ covering the entire globe (not necessarily their own, though local knowledge will help), focusing on a menu of possible climate mitigation project types, and their local and global spatial and temporal interconnections.) Based on initial proposed project-timelines of actions (Gantt charts) across the globe produced in Day 1, off-site computer simulations will be run over the weekend to predict likely climate modification outcomes. In Day 2, negotiation techniques will be used to find incremental improvements, resulting in an initial global strategic plan for carbon reduction.
No special prior experience is required. Geographic, cultural and disciplinary diversity is desired, and basic computer skills should suffice. A willingness to think big, and to engage in holistic systems thinking will help. We especially seek participants from or with experience in as many countries and climate regions as possible.