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Environmental Activism by Design

Environmental Activism by Design
Edited by Coleman Coker and Sarah Gamble

Publication Date: April 2023
Format: Softcover with full flaps
200 pages
Publisher: Applied Research & Design
Size: 8″ × 10”
ISBN: 978-1954081796
Typeset in TT Hoves
Book design by Pablo Mandel


Environmental Activism by Design 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.

This book centers 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.