Harvard GSD?s Richard Rogers Fellowship winners announced
Six fellows were chosen to take up residence in Rogers?s iconic Wimbledon House in London Six winners have been announced for the inaugural Richard Rogers Fellowship, a residency program of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Chosen out of over 200 applicants worldwide, the fellows will spend three months at Rogers?s iconic and landmarked Wimbledon House in London to undertake research on how the built environment can improve the quality of human life.
GSD?s dean Mohsen Mostafavi said of the residency, ?The spirit of the Fellowship is intended to carry forward and expand on Lord Rogers?s deep commitment to cities not as ends in themselves, but as a fundamental means of bettering human life.?
To that end, the group of professionals and scholars, who hail from Mexico, the U.S., Austria, Norway, and the Netherlands, will address issues like sustainability, urbanism, and affordable housing during their three-month stay. Meet the fellows below.
Namik Mackic (Oslo, Norway) and Maik Novotny (Vienna, Austria) will make up the first group of residents during the spring. Mackic, a research associate with Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative and guest critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, will compare citizen-driven initiatives in two post-Brexit capitals, London and Berlin, highlighting the role of refugees, immigrants, and other disadvantaged populations with those spaces.
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