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“What we decide to automate matters, in that technology tends to amplify, accelerate, or consolidate the inherited values and value systems of our society.” – Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti
In the first in a series about AI in design, Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, assistant professor in practice of architecture at the Harvard GSD, considers how AI belongs to a history of technological innovation in design, and how designers may be uniquely equipped to contend with its social, economic, and creative implications.
She asks: “Do the values that shaped our contemporary profession and discipline still align with the world in which we live and the future world we are responsible for designing? What things do we want to amplify and scale, and what do we want to leave behind?”
Visit https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/ to read “Resistant Data: Questioning Architectural Values in the Age of AI” through .
Animation: Continuously Becoming Home. Courtesy of Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti.
07/14/2026
In “Mammoth and Other Frozen Meats,” Hi’ilei Julia Hobart discusses the profound impact of cold storage on patterns of meat consumption and systems of trade. She writes:
“Storing food in cold temperatures has, in fact, become the de facto technological development upon which the global food system operates today. Recalling these past experiments with taste and time are useful signposts, however, to remind us how quickly frozen foods became wrested from the world of uncertainty to be domesticated by marketing and mothers—now bastions of comfort, safety, and modern convenience”
This essay is from Harvard Design Magazine ,No. 43: Shelf Life.
Visit https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/mammoth-and-other-frozen-meats/ to read this article and more, and to purchase a copy of .
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