Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting of 45 Graduate School of Design students expressed support yesterday for the continuation of field work in the GSD curriculum, and set up a working committee to restructure the Urban Field Service so the UFS could fully develop field work possibilities...
...meeting also instructed the committee to examine the alternatives to the UFS--a community-oriented planning consultant group funded by the GSD--without excluding field work from the GSD curriculum...
...suggest the creation of a joint student-faculty committee to examine the role of community-oriented field experience within the School of Design curriculum, in terms of student needs and Harvard's responsibilities to the greater Boston Community. Jorge Hernandex Kate Thompson Michael McCullough Thomas H. Kelley (Students of GSD) Steve Zimmerman Richard Telford Sy Adler Laura Nields
There is an excitement in being able to wander around the space, sit in at the edge of classes, explore other people's work without feeling like a spy, and just talking to other students. It is a noticeable contrast to the secretive nature of the old GSD of individual classrooms and studios filled with cubbyholes created by students for their private use, places to hide away their planning and architectural creations until the moment of the big critique. Gund Hall insists on more cooperative attitude...
...space will function as planned can only be evaluated after the space has been in use for some time. Yet, it is a valid question to ask of the studio space whether or not it represents design coercion; the assumption that the designers knew what is best for the GSD faculty and students and would design a space making any modifications difficult. It is conceivable that the unobstructed work space will be used as a freedom to enter into a freer exchange of ideas and to shuffle around learning areas by using the expanses of unobstructed floor space...