Showcasing Student Creativity: Student Gallery Opening
Students touring the gallery spaces.
At the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI), the physical space reflects the Incubator’s creative vision and educational mission. Bright colors and artwork fill the office with uplifting energy and inspire teachers and students to devise innovative ways to teach global health problems. As part of this effort, GHELI regularly displays student projects that illuminate what is possible when students are given the freedom and tools to pursue the issues important to them.
With great excitement, GHELI’s teaching and learning team welcomed students back into the space for the first in-person student gallery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The works displayed in the gallery were the final projects created by Harvard College students from Faculty Director Sue J. Goldie’s Spring 2022 course, Gen Ed 1063: World Health: Challenges and Opportunities. For their final assignment, students were asked to systematically analyze a societal health challenge they were passionate about and create a “problem-inspired” product intended to influence policy, motivate action, and inspire real-world change.
Featuring a variety of multimodal projects—from evocative poster series on opioid prevention to artwork about ongoing crises of displacement—the gallery captures the creativity and passion of Harvard undergraduates interested in global health. During the celebration, students explored their classmates’ final projects and engaged in lively discussion with their instructor, Professor Goldie.
When they were not perusing the gallery, students were brought into the GHELI studios and asked about their creative process. Students expressed how the flexibility of the project guidelines gave them the opportunity to experiment and dive deep into their chosen topics.
With a successful gallery opening, we congratulate our students on a job well done. We look forward to seeing how they use the skills they learned in class to make a positive impact on global health in the future!