Today, the Harvard Graduate School of Design revealed the incoming class of its 2022 Loeb Fellowship, naming 10 mid-career innovators in a range of fields that "engage with the built environment and social outcomes," according to a GSD press release. This year's cohort, the GSD's 51st class of fellows, will launch the Loeb/ArtLab Fellowship, a collaboration between the Loeb Fellowship and Harvard's arts and interdisciplinary research hub, ArtLab.
In keeping with Loeb tradition, the 2021-2022 class of fellows will participate in a one-year residency at the GSD, conducting research and attending workshops aimed at expanding their work. This year, the fellows were selected from a pool of 134 candidates; they will join an international community of more than 450 Loeb fellows including artist Theaster Gates and the late architect Philip Freelon.
“The Class of 2022 exemplifies our commitment to some of the most urgent social issues of both the current moment and our collective history, among them racial justice, environmental and spatial equity, the societal impacts of technology, inclusive cultural preservation, and activism,” said Loeb Fellowship curator John Peterson in the same release. “In addition to their year of independent study, we look forward to amplifying the voices and issues that this cohort of Loeb Fellows brings to Harvard and the GSD community, through our events and public programming as well as active engagement with students and faculty."
The 2022 Loeb Fellows
Veyom Bahl
Managing Director, Robin Hood
New York
Karen Dawn Blondel
Founder, Public Housing Civic Association
New York
Andrea Bolnick
Managing Director, Ikhayalami
Cape Town, South Africa
Stephanie Hankey
Executive Director, Tactical Tech
Berlin
Will Hunter
Founder, London School of Architecture
London
Mpho Matsipa
Curator, African Mobilities; Senior Lecturer, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and Research Fellow (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Monica Rhodes
Director of Resource Management, United States National Park Foundation
Baltimore
Moddie Turay
Founder and CEO, City Growth Partners
Detroit
Michael Uwemedimo
Co-founder and Director, Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform; and Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Jordan Weber
Regenerative land sculptor and environmental activist
Des Moines, Iowa
From the GSD: In addition to being selected as one of this year’s Loeb fellows, Weber received the inaugural joint Loeb/ArtLab Fellowship, intended to enrich the fellowship experience with studio space in the ArtLab, research support and networking resources through the ArtLab community, and other engagements around proposed programs and projects over the course of the year.
