Reading List

Design & Aesthetic Activism

• Online

  Aesthetic Environmentalism

  Belmont Freeman

  Places Journal

  A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art struggles to establish the relationship of architecture to the postwar environmental movement and its relevance to our present-day crisis.

• Online

  Field Notes on Design Activism: 2

  Brandi T. Summers, Jeremy Till, Peggy Deamer, Jeffrey Hou, Daniel A. Barber, Dahlia Nduom, James Graham, Nora Wendl, Cassim Shepard, Andrea Roberts, Sara Jensen Carr, David Theodore

  Places Journal

  The second installment of a narrative survey in which practitioners and educators share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.

• Online

  Field Notes on Design Activism: 1

  Simon Sadler, Adnan Z. Morshed, Aneesha Dharwadker, Ozayr Saloojee, Thandi Loewenson, Anya Sirota, Adam Yarinsky, Matias del Campo, Germane Barnes, Irene Cheng

  Places Journal

  The first installment of a narrative survey in which practitioners and educators share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.

• Online

  The Displaced

  Elin Anna Labba, translated by Fiona Graham

  Places Journal

  For decades, Norway and Sweden forcibly displaced the Indigenous Northern Sámi from their ancestral lands. The ensuing migrations have torn Sámi society apart from within.

• Online

  Landscape as Resistance in the West Bank

  Hubert Murray

  Places Journal

  Under mounting political and ecological stress, environmentalists in the Palestinian village of Battir are working to protect a 4,000-year-old agricultural landscape.