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With the loss of Loker Commons, Lamont Cafe has become what some students consider the closest thing Harvard has to an official student center. The issue of social space has also recently emerged at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where certain faculty members are seeking to increase awareness of the both the importance and existence of overlooked spaces. And just last month, the Undergraduate Council assembled a task force on social space. The issue of campus space has been on the table for decades among undergraduates, but lately it’s been gathering steam...
...While students are leading their own efforts, Harvard faculty members are also taking on the issue of social space. Recently, Harvard Graduate School of Design professor Jerold S. Kayden and assistant professor Martin Zogran shared the results of their joint study during a lecture on social space, entitled “Social Spaces at the Academy...
...year, debating the role that credit-rating agencies played in the subprime crisis. Instead of the blame game it used to be, this debate has recently become a more fruitful discussion between the public and private sectors—policymakers and rating agencies—about how to better design the process of rating securities and minimize conflicts of interest. “The status quo isn’t good enough,” said SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro at a roundtable discussion on the subject last week. While some problems with rating agencies are indeed structural, there...
Former Seattle City Council Member Peter Steinbrueck has turned down a chance to run for mayor of Seattle so that he can accept a fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design for the coming academic year...
...program accepts men and women who have visions to improve natural areas and the environment of cities within the United States, according to the Design School’s Web site...