Reflect

Our community shares their reflections – through blog posts and interviews – on crosscutting themes of socially engaged teaching, scholarship and practice.

Green Roof Ecology – “In Conversation” with Timon McPhearson and Cecilia de Corral

Global Voices: Sri Lanka – “In Conversation” with Evan Rapport and Naomi Sturm

Feminist Avant-garde Poetics – “In Conversation” with Jennifer Firestone and Marcella Durand

“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?”

“In Conversation” with Shana Agid

“In Conversation” with Tanya Kalmanovitch

“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 up your seat for a person who would never be able to have it.”

“In Conversation” with Ana Paula Barreto

“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 regional scales with data-driven, systems-oriented, inter-disciplinary science and design that will have long term impacts in cities (and beyond cities) and help reveal solutions.” Timon McPhearson, May 2018

“In Conversation” with Dr. Timon McPhearson

Creating Service-Learning Opportunities – Knowing Your Students

Creating Service-Learning Opportunities – Knowing Your Students

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 regulate the drilling process of fracking. Local communities are left in a vacuum of policy direction, fighting the roll out go fracking infrastructure with few tools available.

Legal and Media Strategies for Communities Resisting Environmental Injustice

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 media, industrial economic abandonment – often prevents people from believing in their own creative and intellectual capacity. 

Critical Pedagogy in Classrooms and Communities: Notes on Teaching Social Justice