Category: Results

“What is it that would allow the city to incentivize green roofs on more public spaces and green or some private spaces that might serve a different kind of community?”

“We did a really good job of touching on social justice themes that are maybe sometimes overlooked in the larger discussion because there are certain keywords or initiatives that people go to when they think about social justice.”

“We always say this week we’ve seen friendships happen over and over again and we’ve seen intellectual sparks and inspiration, just things happening between people in the classroom in front of our eyes all the time.”

“Rather than entering as designers or design students kind of trained in different modes of observation and prototyping, what does it looks like to start with something where you acknowledge all the things you don’t know, or you don’t prioritize your own expertise yet?”

“The thing about artistic practice is that you can’t fake it. You can’t fake your body being on stage; it’s irreducible. I’ve come to really appreciate embodied forms of practice – the transaction that happens between a performer and an audience member – as a form of radical truth-telling and truth-making.”

“If you ask me what is my impact at The New School, I would say that a full scholarship program for at least two people from the Global South per year would be something that really represents what social justice is. We live in a systematically and structurally unequal society, sometimes social justice represents giving…

“In the Urban Systems Lab, we are trying to address some of the most important challenges facing cities and urban areas around the globe. Social inequity, climate change vulnerability, and damaged ecosystems are significant challenges at the city scale, but also at a planetary scale. We ask: how can we improve decision-making from neighborhood to…

Despite the clear science on shale gas infrastructure and its dire impact in the climate, despite mounting opposition from local townships, despite a series of high profile leaks from pipeline failures, the expansion of shale gas infrastructure continues at an unprecedented rate. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 stripped the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to…

Working in poor regions where residents experience internalized oppression, I learned that a good educator first provides opportunities for people to believe that their lives, voices, and perspectives matter. I learned how being told how to fit into someone else’s mold – through schooling, social welfare institutions, criminal justice systems, immigration law and policing, the…