The (New) Image of the City

Harvard Graduate School of Design - Fall 2024


Link: LinkedIn

YouTube Link: Exploring AI in the classroom - Alex Yuen


Instructor: Alex Yuen

Department of Urban Planning and Design

The (New) Image of the City - Black Rock Desert

Nestled in the western United States, Black Rock City hosts Burning Man, a week-long, large-scale desert event that revolves around "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance."

 This annual gathering, held in northwestern Nevada's Black Rock Desert since 1991, transforms the barren landscape about 100 miles north-northeast of Reno into a temporary city. The event reaches its pinnacle on the penultimate night with the symbolic burning of a colossal wooden effigy known as the Man, embodying the spirit of this ephemeral and vibrant community. According to Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey in 2004, the community is guided by ten stated principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.

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Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
The (New) Image of the City

Harvard Graduate School of Design - Fall 2024


Link: LinkedIn

YouTube Link: Exploring AI in the classroom - Alex Yuen


Instructor: Alex Yuen

Department of Urban Planning and Design

The (New) Image of the City - Black Rock Desert

Nestled in the western United States, Black Rock City hosts Burning Man, a week-long, large-scale desert event that revolves around "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance."

 This annual gathering, held in northwestern Nevada's Black Rock Desert since 1991, transforms the barren landscape about 100 miles north-northeast of Reno into a temporary city. The event reaches its pinnacle on the penultimate night with the symbolic burning of a colossal wooden effigy known as the Man, embodying the spirit of this ephemeral and vibrant community. According to Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey in 2004, the community is guided by ten stated principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.

backBack
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city
Burning man by Mojtaba Nabavi at Harvard GSD Urban Design and future city