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...factor of nearly twenty, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considers launching a pilot program to outsource undergraduates’ e-mail to an external provider. Following this fall’s successful launch of Google mail accounts for new students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), FAS Information Technology (IT) has begun exploring the possibility of a similar pilot program for students in the College. As with the GSD system, the domain name of students’ e-mail addresses—fas.harvard.edu—would remain the same, although a third-party service would...
...architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi were awarded this year’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize winner for their Seattle-based project, the Olympic Sculpture Park. As Manfredi says, the project is “something radical.” The Graduate School of Design (GSD) is currently exhibiting material related to the project in the lobby of Gund Hall. And something radical it is. It is a landscape built over existing infrastructure, including highways and train tracks, and the new, Z-shaped Olympic Sculpture Park brings together city and nature. According to Manfredi...
...This moment—a time of beginnings, with new deans in the FAS and the GSD, a new undergraduate curriculum, and a new campus emerging across the rive —seems propitious for an ambitious rethinking of the place of arts practice at Harvard. Recent developments in the humanities and sciences, in digital technology, and in the arts themselves have called into question traditional distinctions between making and understanding. We have a historic opportunity to rethink our teaching and learning, to foster the talents of our very gifted students, to forge new interdisciplinary links across the University?...
...should we think about the role of the arts within the curriculum? Except in the GSD and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, we have few practicing artists on our faculty. Is this a result of principle, resources, or accident? Should we be thinking differently about the role of writers, painters, filmmakers at Harvard? Are different sorts of faculty appointments necessary or advisable to bring more artists into permanent positions in our community? Are there cross-School collaborations that would encourage broader engagement of those already present...
...What role might the GSD, centrally focused like no other School at Harvard on questions of creativity and design, play beyond its own boundaries in building and supporting the arts across the University...