INHABITING THE NEGATIVE SPACE

Artist and writer Jenny Odell hadn't originally planned to deliver the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's 2020 Class Day Address from her living room. But on May 25, 2020, there was Jenny, framed by a rose garden in her Zoom background, speaking to an audience she could not see about the role of design in a suspended moment marked by uncertainty in a global pandemic. Odell's messag e, itself a timely reflection on observation, embraces the standstill and its potential to deepen and expand our individual and coll ective at...[Read more]