Associate Professor Nikole Bouchard was interviewed by 2017 Marcus Prize laureate Jeanne Gang for the recent issue of Harvard Design Magazine No.53: Reuse and Repair edited by Jeanne Gang and Lizabeth Cohen.
“Reuse requires students to see their built environment, which they may have preconceptions about, through a new lens,” Bouchard said. “It cultivates a deep sense of curiosity, and a level of empathy with the material, building, and/or community they are working with.”
Bouchard was joined in conversation by Dean Deborah Berke (Yale University), Dean Renee Chow (University of California–Berkeley), Dean Ned Crankshaw (University of Kentucky), Professor Jeffrey Day (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), David Fixler (Harvard University), Director Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Director Cathi Ho Schar (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), and Chair Stephen Schreiber (University of Massachusetts–Amherst).
They discussed the following topics:
- Building New or Reuse: What Educators are Thinking About (+ Teaching)
- Barriers to Integrating Reuse into Curricula
- The Challenge and The Promise of Accreditation
- Sympathies and Differences: Reuse and Historic Preservation Pedagogy
- Why Educators Care about Reuse
- Why Might Students Care about Reuse
Read the full collection of conversations in Harvard Design Magazine.