Harvard GSD’s two-year MDes empowers scholars and practitioners to dive deep into cutting-edge research clusters—Ecologies, Mediums, Narratives, Publics, and Urbanism. Studio-seminar hybrids link critical theory with advanced fabrication, data-driven urban analytics, and design justice. Students partner with MIT Media Lab coders, Harvard Law cyber-policy fellows, and NGO climate activists to prototype resilient infrastructures and speculative media that challenge inequity and planetary limits, graduating as hybrid researcher-designers shaping policy, industry, and culture.
Algorithmic zoning tool visualizing equity impacts of land-use codes
AR narrative exposing hidden labor in global supply chains
Bio-material façade panel grown from mycelium waste streams
Data-journalism website mapping eviction hotspots with story maps
Speculative graphic novel on post-carbon food infrastructures
Participatory video toolkit for refugee camp urban planning
Machine-learning classifier of red-lined neighborhoods’ heat islands
Robotic loom weaving recycled-plastic river clean-up nets
Blockchain prototype for community land-trust ownership records
Exhibition design critiquing surveillance architecture in smart cities
Interactive dashboard tracking Indigenous land acknowledgments
Thesis on ‘slow AI’ design ethics for public spaces
Podcast mini-series interviewing decolonial design activists
Metric framework assessing joy and mental health in park design
VR simulation of ancestral ecological knowledge for climate adaptation
Open-source toolkit for zero-carbon neighborhood retrofits
Business plan for circular-economy design consultancy
Fuse critical inquiry and experimental making to redefine design’s future.
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