Walking Festival of Sound / Opening Panel

Walking Festival of Sound / Opening Panel

This gathering of Loeb fellows, designers, students, GSD faculty and invited guests serves to introduce the festival's program and collectively discuss some of the thematic areas and iterests around sound and spatial practices that will be explored through various activities, walks and listening sessions during the festival. Among invited guests, the audience will get to meet and hear from Chris Berdik, a writer, journalist and author of “Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World and How We Can Take It Back” (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025). Together, we will debate the importance of building soundscape awareness among students, professional and public audiences and communities. How can we better listen to our cities and, perhaps more importantly, how can cities better listen to their inhabitants, human and other-than-human?
Chris Berdik is a freelance science journalist, and a former staff editor at The Atlantic and Mother Jones. His stories have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, the Daily Beast, and New Scientist, among other publications. His radio and multimedia pieces have been featured on Smithsonian.com, WBUR (Boston's National Public Radio affiliate), and Sciencestage.com. Chris's stories often explore the intersection of science with law or ethics. Over the years, he has covered an eclectic mix of topics ranging from personal genomics to nuclear whistleblowers to climate engineering. He wrote about the placebo effect (including its non-medical manifestations) for his first book, Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations, which was published by Current, an imprint of Penguin, in 2012. He has a BA in history and literature from Harvard, an MA in journalism from Stanford, and he received a fellowship from the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources in 2000.
www.chrisberdik.com
Loeb Fellowship, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), offers mid-career professionals a year of transformation and engagement at Harvard University, along with membership in a global network of over 450 alums. Loeb Fellows are experienced practitioners who are shaping the built and natural environment in the U.S. and around the world. Urban planners and designers, public artists, real estate developers, landscape architects, journalists, civic leaders, architects, policymakers, social entrepreneurs, and more, these proven leaders step away from their professional lives for one academic year to strengthen their knowledge and impact, to broaden or refocus their careers, and to encourage deeper social engagement with their work.
Loeb Fellowship

Time: 12-2pm
Place: GSD Gund Hall, Room 124, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Snacks and coffee will be served

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