image courtesy of Ashley Thompson.

In the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Harvard Graduate School of Design students initiated advocacy efforts from a makeshift station inside Gund Hall, task-mapping the affected region and establishing web resource Nepal Quake Aid. This past January, a group of students from the GSD’s Master in Design Studies (MDes) Risk and Resilience program brought efforts to the ground, traveling to Nepal's Kathmandu Valley region for a month of fieldwork. 

With guidance from Risk and Resilience program co-coordinators Rosetta Elkin, assistant professor of landscape architecture, and Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism and chair of the department of urban planning and design, six students traveled with current GSD Loeb Fellow Brett Moore to Nepal, focusing their fieldwork on post-earthquake recovery and humanitarian efforts. The initiative was supported by sources including Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and Harvard University Asia Center.....Continue Reading

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