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Harvard is searching for a Loeb Fellowship Curator

2024-03-27T11:22:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for an Architect at the US Bureau of Reclamation, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for Curator of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University.

The role, based in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, calls for an individual to provide “vision and overall direction to the Loeb Fellowship program for mid-career professionals in design-related disciplines.” In addition to acting as principal spokesperson for the program, the curator will be expected to contribute to the wider GSD offering. Among the requirements for the role are a Bachelor’s degree and “proven curatorial, staff and program management, and/or development leadership in an educational/design setting including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design or related field.”

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Harvard GSD announces Loeb Fellowship class of 2022

2021-06-10T10:30:00-04:00

The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship has announced its Class of 2022. The ten individuals were selected from a group of 134 candidates, and work across fields including activism, urbanism, public art, film and media, technology, and real estate development. The 2021-2022 cycle, the 51st in the Loeb Fellowship’s history, will also see an inaugural collaborative fellowship between the Loeb Fellowship and the ArtLab at Harvard University.

The ten incoming Loeb Fellows are:

Veyom Bahl, New York, NY; Managing Director, Robin Hood Foundation
Karen Dawn Blondel, New York, NY; Founder, Public Housing Civic Association
Andrea Bolnick, Cape Town, South Africa; Managing Director, Ikhayalami
Stephanie Hankey, Berlin, Germany; Executive Director, Tactical Tech
Will Hunter, London, United Kingdom; Founder, The London School of Architecture
Mpho Matsipa, Johannesburg, South Africa; Founder and Chief Curator, African Mobilities and Chancellor's Fellow (FALF), Univer...

Harvard GSD announces its 2020 Loeb Fellowship cohort

2019-06-28T09:13:00-04:00

Fellowships offer practitioners opportunities to explore and immerse themselves in the academic environment through research and collaboration. The Loeb Fellowship has allowed individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to come together and focus their efforts on creating pathways towards positive examples of social outcomes and equity. With over 100 candidates applying for this year's cohort, nine individuals were chosen.

Pedro Gadanho (Director, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology; Lisbon, Portugal)
Elizabeth Kay Miller (Executive Director, Community Design Collaborative; Philadelphia, PA)
Deborah Morris (Executive Director of Resiliency Policy, Planning, and Acquisitions, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development; New York, NY)
Eleni Myrivili (Deputy Mayor for Urban Nature, Resilience & Climate Change Adaptation, City of Athens; Athens, Greece)
De Nichols (Social Impact Design Principal, Civic Creatives; St. Louis, MO)
Wolfgang Rieder (Entreprene...