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The Case of Cape Ann

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Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory

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EVERGRANDE TIMES

NEW CITY

50 Unique New Towns

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Bioproductive Models for

Tranversing the Han

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The Case of Miami’s Metrorail South

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The Case of Miami Beach

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Chicago Architecture Biennal

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The Case of Mendoza Aeroparque

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Field Guide to the Transformation of

Abandoned Airports

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Solar Orientation and Social Order

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The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Office for Urbanization draws upon the School’s history of design innovation to address societal and cultural conditions associated with contemporary urbanization. It develops speculative and projective urban scenarios through sponsored design research projects.

 

The work of the office can be described under the general rubric of design research. Design research is synthetic, incorporating information relative to a particular project from a diverse array of sources. Often characterized by its capacity to organize and visually represent complex arrays of information, design research deploys simulations and scenario-based projections to reveal latent potentials for future conditions. Design research is most often propositional, rather than simply empirical or descriptive. Design research projects stand simultaneously as propositions for intervention in the world, and as a form of knowledge about the world.

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