The accumulation of material goods increasingly shapes the spaces we inhabit. Large parts of the contemporary landscape are organized around storage: facilities for warehousing, logistics,

maintenance, and the long-term containment of objects, data, and resources. The current issue of Harvard Design Magazine, titled Shelf Life, examines the contents, containers, and systems of storage that structure our world.

The issue brings together contributions that explore contemporary forms of storage—digital, financial, and corporeal—and their connections to landscape, economy, culture, and emotion. Storage is approached not merely as a technical or logistical problem, but as a spatial, political, and cultural condition that influences how value, memory, and responsibility are organized.

Contributors include Shannon Mattern, Antonio Furgiuele, Susan Nigra Snyder, Mark Mulligan, Rania Ghosn, and Andrew Holder. Published twice yearly at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard Design Magazine combines design research, critical writing, and visual material to address pressing questions at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and culture.