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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Activism by Design, a monograph by architects and educators Coleman Coker and Sarah Gamble, challenges designers to actively engage the environmental crisis through their work, while articulating an optimistic, tangible means to pursue community good and environmental justice through design activism and engagement. The authors assert that in addition to greener buildings, cheaper housing, and technological fixes, we must rethink pedagogy and praxis so that every single architecture graduate can define equity and transform the profession.
Environmental Activism by Design centres on the award-winning Gulf Coast DesignLab at the University of Texas, which works directly with clients and stakeholders to produce spaces for the public to learn and researchers to undertake their environmental work. Environmental Activism by Design asks readers to challenge themselves, as agents of social equity, environmental justice, and climate action, to pursue operative practices and transformation rather than mere keywords and consensus.
Table of ContentsFOREWORD An Architecture of Sentient Beings 7 INTRODUCTION 15 Projects Catalogue 25 CHAPTER 1 Red Tide, Red Necks and Littoral Drift 39 GATHER 51 FLOAT 59 CHAPTER 2 Gulf Coast DesignLab: A Model for Learning 69 RISE 91 STORE 99 CHAPTER 3 Act as If Your House Is on Fire 107 INHABIT 127 OBSERVE 135 CHAPTER 4 A Responsibility to Place 143 SHIFT 157 COOP 167 CONCLUSION Ripples of Hope 175 AFTERWORD Why Do We Do What We Do? 189 Acknowledgments 195 Author Bios 198
