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1st Edition

Activism in Design Education Health, Equity, and Climate Action

Edited By Claire Latané, Jean Yang Copyright 2027

270 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

270 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Activism in Design Education shows how design pedagogy can become a form of public action, proving universities are not just places of learning, but engines for real-world change. The book showcases design educators from across the United States who are using their studios and seminars as incubators for activism, partnering with communities, sharing power, and empowering students to transform... Read more

Table of Contents

Foreword

Jeffrey Hou, Singapore International University

Introduction

Claire Latané and Jean Yang

Part One: Design for Crisis Response

Part One Introduction

Jean Yang

Chapter 1: A Rapid Crisis Response: The Emergency Schoolyard Design Volunteers

Claire Latané

Chapter 2: Second Responders: post-disaster design studio

Catherine Page Harris and Michaele Pride

Chapter 3: Anti-Displacement Studio in Boston Chinatown: Learning Community Stabilization and Neighborhood Preservation

Lily Song

Chapter 4: Landscape for Humanity: A New Design Education Framework for Environmental Justice

Yekong Ko and Kory Russel

Part Two: Relational Infrastructure for Community Care

Part Two Introduction

Jean Yang

Chapter 5: Design Studio as Civic Practice: A Case Study from the Mississippi Gulf Coast

SaMin Han

Chapter 6: Centering Indigenous Leadership in Education and Design

Monique Bassey

Chapter 7: Strengthening Local Ecologies of Care Through Art and Activism in Harlem, NYC

Elizabeth MacWillie, Shawn L. Rickenbacker, and Zihao Zang

Chapter 8: Co-Designing Just Transitions: Pedagogies for Regenerative Systems Supporting Community Self-Determination

Catherine De Almeida

Chapter 9: Systems Thinking and Community-First Approaches in Landscape Architecture Education

Cheryl Lough

Chapter 10: Engage, Collaborate, Design, Activate: An Optimistic Future for the Bridgeport Waterfront

Jill Desimini and Sohyun Park

Chapter 11: Absence Reclaimed: The Regenerative Role of Landscape and Design in Rosewood

Newton D’Souza and Roberto Rovira

Chapter 12: Sticker-Based Ethnography: Codebooks, Gradients, and Cross-Case Methods for Reading Community Collages

Jean Yang

Part Three: Long-Term Systemic Change

Part Three Introduction

Jean Yang

Chapter 13: The Pre-Design Seminar: Introducing Design Activism through Engagement, Place, and People.

Stephen Mainzer

Chapter 14: Disrupting Power: Cultivating Critical Reflection in the Design Studio

Jade Orr

Chapter 15: Seeking Landscape Justice:Allensworth, California Rises Again

Alison B. Hirsch

Chapter 16: The Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments (CHILE): Tackling Systems Change for k-12 Landscapes

Claire Latané

Chapter 17: A Field Guide to the Elusive Justice-Oriented University

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Institutional Evolution

Jean Yang

Conclusion

Claire Latané and Jean Yang

Glossary

Index

Editor(s)

Biography

Claire Latané is a professor and chair of Cal Poly Pomona’s landscape architecture department, founder of the Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments, and the author of Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind.

Jean Yang creates participatory methods—from sticker ethnography to natural pigment extraction—that make spatial power legible through embodied practice. Assistant Professor at SUNY-ESF, she leads National Endowment for the Arts and National Park Service grants with unhoused communities, refugee farmers, and neighborhoods resisting erasure.

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