Recent Events

5/9/25 2025 Loeb Fellowship Year in Review

As the Loeb Fellowship Class of 2025 reflected on their time together at the GSD and at Harvard, their strong bond and regard for each other contributed to the emergence of a cohesive narrative of a transformative year. One of the key points of convergence is the fierceness of their ongoing commitment to being part of the “architecture of resistance.”

 

4/10/25 VIEW FROM THE EDGE! On Periphery-Center Relationships

Old color photograph of 4 Nigerian women posing in coordinating traditional outfits

VIEW FROM THE EDGE! explored the African continent as Mother through performances by
SHEENA DHAM musician, composer, and songwriter
JOHN PETERSON architect, educator, activist, and curator of the Loeb Fellowship
and TUNDE WEY social practice artist living between Nigeria and the US.
This intimate production posited Africa as corporeal and corpse, shaped by catastrophe and ongoing colonial stratagems.

Recording will be available in June.

 

3/24/25 La Nuit des Idées: A Grand Parisian Night

Poster for A Grand Parisian Night: Following the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the adoption of  the new Bioclimatic Land Use Plan, many challenges remain for a metropolis still characterized by fragmentation between the historic city center and its banlieues. The event featured keynotes by Lamia El Aaraje, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning, architecture, and Greater Paris; architect Nicola Delon of ; and artist Victoire Bourgois. Following the panel, Pierre-Emmanuel Becherand '25 moderated a roundtable discussion that included architect Pauline Marchetti of Ferrier-Marchetti Studio; Antoine Picon, professor of the history of architecture and technology; and Magda Maaoui, assistant professor of urban planning.

Watch the event recording.

11/19/24 Hard To Swallow: A Food Show Not About Food

Hard To Swallow, an unreleased docuseries from Tunde Wey ’25, is essayistic and reflexive, describing Wey’s career while examining the social structures that disenfranchise Black people globally. The 6-part series premiered at CANNESERIES and SeriesFest in 2024 and will be released in 2025.

Screening of the pilot and finale episode was followed by a panel of Loeb Fellows discussing the broader themes of the episodes.

Series Trailers and participants

View of audience and bottom of screen at Test screening of Hard To Swallow, Los Angeles, 2024. Credit: Tyler Aryai.

Image Credit: Tyler Aryai

11/15/24 Loeb Fellowship Symposium:“A Round Table – Makers and Users”

This symposium brought together five Loeb Fellows from the 10 years of John Peterson’s curatorship to share stories of how interdependence and collaboration have been instrumental to the success of their work, exemplifying and extending the Loeb Fellowship’s vision and reach.

Alejandro Echeverri LF’16, Natalia García Dopazo LF’23, Stephanie Hankey LF’22, Jordan Weber LF’22, and Eric Williams LF’18 delved into the value of dialogue, fellowship, and sharing as acts of care that broaden the intellectual and human horizons of the shapers of our environment. These practices not only cultivate networks of support and personal growth but also challenge the conventional values of authorship and exclusivity.

Recording

 

11/13/24 Interdisciplinary Feminist Practices as Insurgent Possibilities: a conversation with Shana M. griffin

This artist talk with Shana M. griffin, the 2025 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow, is part of the Designing Within Conflict, Building for Peace lecture series and Malkit Shoshan’s Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Shana M. griffin

 

9/18/24 Meet the 2025 Loeb Fellows

The 2025 Loeb Fellows are ten innovators who are transforming public spaces and urban infrastructure, rectifying health and environmental injustices, addressing housing needs, and preserving cultural, natural, and architectural heritage. In 3 groups they presented their work and practice with short videos and engaged with each other through Q&A moderated by curator John Peterson.