Inhabiting the negative space : Virtual Commencement 2020, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, May 28, 2020 / by Jenny Odell ; foreword by Sarah M. Whiting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odell, Jenny (Multimedia artist), author.

Contributor:

Whiting, Sarah M., writer of foreword.

Harvard University. Graduate School of Design, sponsoring body, publisher.

Series:

Incidents (Sternberg Press)

The incidents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occasional speeches.

Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Space (Art).

Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Harvard University.

Occasional speeches--Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Physical Description:

80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Hi, everyone. I'm speaking to you from my apartment in Oakland, though I've virtually placed myself in the rose garden nearby." Artist and writer Jenny Odell hadn't originally planned to deliver the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's 2020 Class Day Address from her living room. But on May 25, 2020, there was Jenny, framed by a rose garden in her Zoom background, speaking to an audience she could not see about the role of design in a suspended moment marked by uncertainty in a global pandemic. Odell's message, itself a timely reflection on observation, embraces the standstill and its potential to deepen and expand our individual and collective attention and sensitivity to time, place, and presence--in turn, perhaps, enabling us all, amid our "new" virtual contexts, to better connect with our natural and cultural environments

ISBN:

3956795814

9783956795817

OCLC:

1204342601