As head of the Graduate School of Design, Mohsen Mostafavi sees enthusiasm for more socially based, activist approaches. Boston Globe

Boston is on the map and today a merry band of GSD design doctors are staking their claim with the release of a new publication, titled New Geographies which looks to refocuses the emphasis on the larger territorial subjects of geography and planning. Join them this evening 04/23 at 6:30pm for a round table discussion (with Rania Ghosen, El Hadi Jazairy, Mohesen Mostafavi, Antonio Petrov, Antoine Picon, Stephen Ramos, Hashim Sarkis, Neyran Turan, and Charles Waldheim.) and pickup a copy at the reception.

Marc, at Knowlton, shares some sexy green renderings.

ACFA, at UCLA, returns from his hiatus to tell us that he's landed in Tokyo for a weeklong studio excursion.

Mike, at the U of NM, is desperately seeking diagrammatic sections and plans for the Experience Music Project in Seattle, then plays a little game of name the architects.

Nik, at NC State, summarizes the Alexander Tzonis lecture and the Jeanne Gang lecture.

Quilian, at the GSD, is Learning from Nicaragua

Mark, at Columbia, enters his Francois Roche Robotic Tower animation in a Radiohead music video competition. Nice work! Go vote for him!

Nkiru, at Rice, tells us about Sandford Kwinter's new book Far From Equilibrium and his school lecture discussing the book.