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Roles of Design Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Roles of Design Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic

For the Harvard GSD Design Research Forum’s 2020 colloquium, I share thoughts on five roles that design researchers can serve as the world navigates the #covid19 pandemic. In this audio recording, I discuss how these roles can help generate data, expose bias, synthesize information, clarify truth, forecast new possibilities, and evaluate current processes and systems of power. I also identify a range of U.S. audiences and demographics for which each of these roles might elevate a deeper sense of personal agency due to histories of marginalization and targeted violence.

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Coronavirus & Harvard Loeb Fellowship Update
Coronavirus & Harvard Loeb Fellowship Update

I write this to thank everyone who has reached out to me to ask about my well-being in the midst of the COVID-19 / coronavirus outbreak and its impact on my experience as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard. In my reflection below, I will share changes that happening in my life and work as well as share how you can support others who are impacted by this experience.

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De Nichols Selected for Harvard’s Loeb Fellowship
De Nichols Selected for Harvard’s Loeb Fellowship

Artist. Activist. Global Speaker. Curator. Entrepreneur. De Nichols is an international changemaker at one of the highest levels of her field, and she is one of 9 designers from across the world who has been selected as a 2020 Loeb Fellow of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD).

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