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

Title: Inhabiting the negative space : Virtual Commencement 2020, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, May 28, 2020 / by Jenny Odell ; foreword by Sarah M. Whiting.
Author: Odell, Jenny (Multimedia artist),
Publication: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2021.

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

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"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.

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N7430.7

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3956795814
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Columbia University Libraries