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SCI 6374

Advanced Applications in Sustainable Architecture

This elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, ecological building design.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
VIS 2484

Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices

The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture, the city, and the world. This semester, we will explore the theme of survival in times of an endangered and uncertain future.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 501 A, B, C, D

Policy Design and Delivery I

Dealing with the impacts of climate change is just one example of a challenging public policy problem HKS students may face in their careers. Policy Design and Delivery (PDD) will teach you the skills necessary to address a wide range of issues and to craft options for change.
Fall 2024 Graduate Not Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
STU 1121

First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio

The course focuses on four key challenges of contemporary urban planning: equity, climate, health, and accessibility.
Fall 2024 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 662

The Future of the European Union: Europe in the World

At a time of increasing global turbulence with debates on the end of the liberal international order and rising turmoil in the wider European neighborhood, this course offers a comprehensive dive into EU external relations.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SES 5456

Climate Change, Real Estate, and Public Policy [Module 1]

In this interdisciplinary course, students will analyze urban development projects and policies in the United States and internationally. They will develop recommendations for how these organizations could better integrate climate change considerations into their work. Through lectures, discussions, interviews, mentorship chats, and guest speakers, students will explore topics such as building retrofits, strategic relocation, revised land use regulations, grey and green infrastructure, building-scale emissions limits, energy efficiency retrofits, renewable energy deployment, and building electrification.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6244

Climate by Design

Through a series of lectures and case studies, this course will explore the range of paradigmatic design responses to the climate crisis.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024

Indigenous Philosophies for the Technological Age

Topics we explore through the lens of indigenous philosophies include attitudes towards nature; views on technology generally; the Anthropocene; traditional ecological knowledge; artificial intelligence; genome-editing; geo-engineering; human rights; and the meaning of life. Engaging with indigenous perspectives on these matters is likely to have a transformative effect on how one approaches the big questions of the 21st century.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Education Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DES 3348

The Idea of Environment

The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. The class will explore how and what new approaches to representation, visualization, and measurement might lead to different relations in a changing world.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 105

International Law and Global Justice

Can international law be a tool for promoting global justice? This course will explore diverse issues, including: Can environmental law help reduce climate change and provide justice for climate refugees?
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 148

Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance

The course presents an advanced treatment of the theory of financial risk management and its application to infrastructure finance.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
STU 1403

Biospheric Urbanism - Changing Climates - Athens Greece

These last few years, cities have been suffering on an unprecedented scale from the ongoing climate change. Extreme heat, extended droughts and flash floods have created crisis after crisis in the urban environment. This problem will most probably get worse in the years to come. Each city needs to urgently rethink its resilience to these radical changes in atmospheric conditions.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024