​​THE INCIDENTS: INHABITING THE NEGATIVE SPACE

Jenny Odell

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The Incidents: Inhabiting the Negative Space 

Jenny Odell

English

2021
Published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Sternberg Press
Printed by GRAFICHE VENEZIANE, Italy

London, United Kingdom

11.5×17.9 cm, 80 pages, color, perfect bound, softcover

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 28, 2020, bounded by the abnormal conditions of a global pandemic, she joined graduates and their guests in a fully virtual commencement ceremony. Framed by a Zoom background of a rose garden, she spoke to an audience she could not see about the role of design in a suspended moment marked by uncertainty. Odell’s message, itself a timely reflection on observation, embraces the standstill and its potential to deepen our individual and collective attention and our 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.

The Incidents is a book series based on uncommon events at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1936 to tomorrow.

ISBN 978-3-95679-581-7