The Idea of Environment

Harvard GSD

What is “the environment” and how do we mobilize it as a category of action in design? How does “the environment” relate to nature? To place? When is the environment “built”? How do humans interact with environments and when is the human body itself an environment of concern? Whose environments count as “the” environment?This class will explore the environment as a “promiscuous concept," in order to grasp how it is historically contingent, culturally situated, politically mobilized, and in…