Dr. Ana Baptista Published in Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice

An article by Dr. Ana Baptista, Associate Professor and co-director of the Tishman Center, was recently published in the open-source book Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice (edited by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Sarah May).

Dr. Baptista’s chapter “Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity, and Activism” reflects on the power of Environmental Justice (EJ) tours to symbolically and concretely counteract the marginalization of communities that live in frontline EJ communities.

EJ, FacultyTishman CenterAugust 3, 2023EJ Communities, Faculty Highlights, environmental justice, Newark, IronboundComment

Dr. Ana Baptista Featured on Resources Radio

Dr. Ana Baptista, co-director of the Tishman Center, has recently been featured on the Resources Radio podcast with host Margaret Walls. In Episode 219, “Environmental Justice and the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution”, Ana breaks down the definition of “cumulative impacts”, why they are a particularly tough problem for overburdened communities to combat, and how environmental justice movements have successfully pushed for greater cumulative impacts legislation in recent years.

EJ, Faculty, interviewsTishman CenterFebruary 28, 2023Faculty Highlights, cumulative impacts, press, environmental justiceComment

[REBLOG] Two Reflections: Thinking About Blackness, Ecology, and Architecture in the United States

The history of building and space is richer than we usually think. So are the visions of a less racist future, motivated in part by many Black voices and gazes. Reconstruction in America worked briefly in the past, ending not in failure but in its active repression. Reconstructions is a beautiful, evocative, and painful call for us all to nurture the racially regenerative possibility of space and building.

Faculty Blog, infrastructureTishman CenterSeptember 14, 2021architecture, ecology, Faculty Highlights, reblogComment

Ecological Urban Design

Brian McGrath, an Associate Director of the Tishman Center and Professor of Urban Design at Parsons, recently co-authored a book titled Patch Atlas, which is a new tool for mapping urban land cover that integrates design principles and ecological knowledge for understanding cities as complex, patchy, and dynamic systems. McGrath also co-authored an article in Science for the Sustainable City which presents key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem Study.

Faculty, Highlights, interviewsTishman CenterDecember 10, 2019Faculty Highlights, Urban design, Parsons School of Design, citiesComment

Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice

Humanities Action Lab is a coalition of universities, including The New School, issue organizations, and public spaces in 23 cities that collaborate to create community-curated projects on urgent social issues. This collaboration between students and community organizations culminated in an exhibition that will travel among the participating communities for two years.

FacultyTishman CenterNovember 15, 2019exhibitions, Student Highlights, Faculty HighlightsComment