For this 10th anniversary issue, several people who have written for Harvard Design Magazine before were invited to explore whatever was of concern to them now, free of any prescribed topic.
27: Open Mike F/W 2007

Table of Contents
Essays
101 Urban Salvations: One Class’s Performance of Everyday Urbanism
An Open Letter to Rem Koolhaas
Blowfish: What to Do When a Design Jury Attacks
Come Together: Integrating Design
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises Edited by Architecture for Humanity
Housing, Immigration, and Fairness: Learning from San Ysidro
Landscapes as Complex Adaptive Systems: Vital New Territories for Design and Planning
Losing Faith in Architecture
More Irrational Exuberance, Please: Playgrounds as Public Space in the Broken-Up City
Observations about Contemporary Design Pedagogy: The GSD Studioscope Conference
On Not Being Governed
Planning and the Just City
Renzo Piano and the Res Publica: Manhattan 2000-2008
The Crystal World: Frank Gehry’s IAC
Ultraviolet: Alvar Aalto’s Embodied Rationalism
Views of Harlem over Time
“What Can I Learn from You?”: A Case for Increasing Cross-Disciplinary Engagement in (the GSD’s) Design Education