SPRING 2005 EVENTS
 

Loeb Fellows Lunchtime Lectures

The EiD Loeb Fellows Lunchtime Lectures will feature presentations by the speakers on a topic pertinent to their work, followed by open discussions between students and speakers. The talks focus on issues of environmentalism, ecology, climate and the city. Bring your lunch, enthusiasm for discourse and questions. Light refreshments provided.

SCHEDULE:

March 3, 12:30 pm, Stubbins (112)

Heather Boyer and Judy Layzer

"Environmentalism and American Values: Who Really Cares?"

Heather Boyer is an editor with Island Press in Boulder, Colorado. She acquires and edits books in the areas of land use planning, sustainable architecture, landscape architecture and environmental health. Over the past 12 years she has been largely responsible for the rise of this non-profit company into the top ranks of publishers in these fields. In recent years, she has published works by Peter Calthorpe, Carl Steinitz, Dan Solomon and Richard T.T. Forman. She particularly enjoys putting together practitioners and writers to effectively tell the story of important best practices, and publishing books that cross boundary lines between fields. As a Loeb Fellow, Heather will study urban policy development, affordable housing, real estate development, community health issues, and the economics of green building.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/current_fellows/bios/boyer.html

Professor Layzer, PhD, MS, a political scientist, is concerned with how Americans make environmental policy decisions. She is particularly interested in the impact of science and values on land use and natural
resource policymaking. Her book, The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy (CQ Press, 2002), explores the relationship between how environmental issues are framed and the kinds of policy decisions governments make. In her current research, Dr. Layzer is investigating whether and how collaborative, ecosystem-scale planning and management yields environmentally protective water and land-use policies. A second project involves analyzing the role of business in environmental policy decisions made by the U.S. Congress.

 

March 10, 1pm, Room 517 (co-sponsored by HUPO)

Robin Chase and Sue Zielinski

“Envisioning Transportation of the Future”

Robin Chase is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, one of the nation's premier organizations offering car rentals by the hour, with headquarters located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Zipcar makes use of technological innovations to make reservations and car pick-up extremely convenient. These strategies have led to a dramatic growth in membership and an increasing impact on transportation choices in Boston, New York and Washington, DC.  Numerous public agencies have replaced their automobile fleets with Zipcar contracts and research shows that every Zipcar is responsible for a reduction in private car ownership of 8-10 vehicles.  She is particularly interested in the impact of urban and infrastructure planning and building on long-term transportation choices in the United States and other nations.  As a Loeb Fellow, Robin will study transportation policy, urban design and city planning.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/current_fellows/bios/chase.html

Sue Zielinski works for the City of Toronto directing a program called Moving the Economy. She is a transportation planner engaged in defining and bringing into reality a New Mobility that integrates numerous forms of transportation to produce highly efficient movement of people and goods. She describes Moving the Economy as a link tank bringing together the Canadian private, public and academic sectors along with community representatives to spark innovation in transportation. She is also involved with the Green Tourism Association that promotes eco-tourism in the city. Sue believes strongly in the integration of many sectors within the planning process and works to facilitate that both in Toronto and in the several national and international networks of which she is a part. As a Loeb Fellow, Sue will study transportation innovations in other parts of the world as well as city planning and urban design.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/current_fellows/bios/zielinski.html

 

March 24, 12:30pm Stubbins (112)

KlausMeyer

“dwelling in the northsolcab  -- experiment for northern dwelling”

Klaus Mayer is a partner in the multi-disciplinary design firm of Mayer Sattler-Smith in Anchorage, Alaska. His design work has the goal to find an appropriate response to local climate, culture and technology. He has also been instrumental in the growth of the Alaska Design Forum (ADF), a non-profit organization of architects, artists, and designers formed to broaden the range of discussion of the design of the built environment. Known for its lecture series, ADF has played a significant role in expanding the conversation about architecture and design in Alaska. Because of the isolation of his city, and the resulting need to make resources go as far as possible, he is particularly interested in integrating architecture and a number of other related disciplines including; engineering, landscape architecture, art, public health, and environmental sciences. As a Loeb Fellow, Klaus plans to study design and the environment and work on the process for establishing a school of architecture in Anchorage.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/current_fellows/bios/mayer.html

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES
for Water in the City Symposium
(poster)

10AM - 6PM
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Portico Rooms, Gund Hall
Harvard Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

(PDF schedule)

Abstract

EiD (Ecology in Design) is sponsoring the “GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES for Water in the City” Symposium on February 19th, 2005. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES is an interdisciplinary symposium to investigate urban water issues through project-based presentations by designers, policy-makers and scientists.

Keynote Speakers

  • Steward Pickett
  • Matthew Urbanski
  • Kristina Hill

Project-based Speakers

  • Melissa Keeley
  • Charles Waldheim
  • Chris Reed
  • Hillary Brown
  • Alex Felson

Speaker Biographies

Respondents

  • Peter del Tredici
  • Robert France
  • Richard Forman

This symposium is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Harvard Center for Environment, Ecology in Design, The Department of Urban Planning and Design, Outside and The Department of Landscape Architecture.

Please contact Natalie DeNormandie with any questions or comments.