2007 Year of the Pig with AsiaGSD
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Founded in 1994, AsiaGSD is a student organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design that bridges divergent groups of students, faculty and professionals committed to design issues relevant to the Asia Pacific region. As it has been for the past 13 years, it is our mission to continue promoting an awareness of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and related disciplines in the visual and design arts within an Asian context. By fostering dialogues focused on professional and scholarly concerns between students, academics and professionals from around the world, AsiaGSD creates an open community with a broad regional framework for Asians and non-Asians alike.
For the academic year of 2007-08, AsiaGSD focuses on design in a post-globalized era. While past years stood on a platform of difference, concentrating on the incessant need to define cultural specificity, the post globalized era goes beyond those inherent cultural segregations in order to conceive a new community based on accepted differences. If convergence was the mediocre dream of the late 90s, we are excited to explore the possibility of communities built on the idea of confluence: discrete things flowing together to continually form new wholes while at times diverging along surprising lines. This year we will cultivate and encourage discussions on cultural and design confluence through three programs:
- 1. A year-long lecture series
- 2. A conference focusing on the cultural implications and intersection between art and architecture
- 3. A design/build workshop with a visiting designer