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In the fall of 2022, the Tishman Center’s Student Awards granted funds to nine students to support their research or design work centering environmental justice; you can read about their project proposals in this blog post. We are excited to highlight the progress of some of our awardees here!
Read MoreAs we are still in the midst of both a global pandemic that continues to affect the lives of everyone on the globe, multiple deadly conflicts in places such as Yemen, Syria, Ukraine and other locales, and the active stripping away of rights in the United States of America, we are glad to find inspiration and hope in the work of our student awardees. These students are dedicating time and effort to addressing not only environmental and climate injustice, but also advocating for democracy, civil rights, accessibility and methods to deal with trauma. We are proud to support the work of these amazing people and are happy to share their work with you. If you are interested in hearing more or want to further support their work, please feel free to reach out to us. And to all of the awardees, thank you for the time and commitment you put into your projects.
Read MoreOur last (but certainly not least) projects from the 2020 Student awards! We would like to thank all the students for their hard work and are proud to see them making a positive difference in the world.
Read MoreThe previous semester (Spring ‘20), the Tishman Environment and Design Center created student awards to help support the work of students doing research and projects around environmental and climate justice, which was especially critical during the beginning phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were glad to support fourteen projects which were carried out by twenty-three students from across the university.
In part two of the series, we highlight four more projects and as always we would like to thank all the students for their hard work and are proud to see them making a positive difference in the world.
Read MoreEarlier this year, the Tishman Center put out a call for applications for our inaugural Arnold and Shelia Aronson Fellowship. The fellowship is meant to support students that are working towards pressing sustainability and environmental justice issues. Our first fellow is Daniela Lam, a Parsons student that is interested in using design to address issues of affordable housing, forced migration due to climate change and how marginalized communities will adapt to a rapidly changing world where floods, fires, hurricanes and other natural disasters (strengthened by climate change) will create even more uncertainty about where people can live.
Read MoreWe are facing a climate crisis and the threat it poses to life on Earth, frontline, fenceline and marginalized communities (including Women, Indigenous, People of Color and Global South communities) are among the foremost challenges of our time. Globally seas are rising, coastlines are eroding, weather patterns are changing, droughts and forest fires are increasing and species extinction is rising exponentially. Solutions to the climate crisis vary among stakeholders from across disciplines.
Read MoreHumanities 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.
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