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Maddie Haworth

University of Gloucestershire, UK

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 7

    Places Journal

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

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 6

    Places Journal

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

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 5

    Places Journal

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

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 4

    Places Journal

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

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 3

    Places Journal

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

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 2

    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.

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    Field Notes on Design Activism: 1

    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.

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    Active Exclusion

    Places Journal

    Too often the concept “active transportation” produces inaccessible environments. The history of Roosevelt Island, named for a disabled president, offers lessons both troubling and hopeful.

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    On Wimmin’s Land

    Places Journal

    Five decades ago the heartland of lesbian separatism could be found in the canyons and meadows of Southern Oregon. What does it mean to commit to a radical plan for living?

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    “The Splendor of Our Public and Common Life”

    Places Journal

    Edward Bellamy’s utopian novels influenced a generation of urban planners and designers. They are worth reading today, as designers consider their political commitments.

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    Gordon Matta-Clark and the Politics of Shared Space

    Places Journal

    An artist in the era of urban renewal thinks through what it might mean to fully collaborate with local communities.

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    "Dreaming True"

    Places Journal

    For nearly half a century, the pioneering landscape architect Martha Brookes Hutcheson used her own farm to empower women and to build an ecological design theory through action.

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    Unbuilding Gender

    Places Journal

    What might the abstract and architectural offer in terms of transgender representation? We can start by looking at the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.

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    The Price of Regeneration

    Places Journal

    Contemporary “placemaking” policies have brought about the hyper-gentrification of large swathes of London and the loss of longstanding communities. But now there are signs of real resistance.

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    Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes

    Places Journal

    People who study, design, or care for landscapes need to become experts at the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.

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    Water Is Wealth

    Places Journal

    In Honolulu, environmental activists are seeking to remake their city according to Indigenous design knowledge. What is happening in Waikīkī might be a model for a new watershed urbanism.

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    The Problem with Solutions

    Places Journal

    We need to engage troubled landscapes without presuming to fix them. Notes toward a history of non-solutionist design.

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    Manchester: History of the Present

    Places Journal

    The city that was the global epicenter of the Industrial Revolution is now being remade by globalized post-industrial capital. This is one of the great spectacles of contemporary Britain.

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    Public Interests

    Places Journal

    Three recent books offer complementary views of the historical shift from public planning to neoliberal privatization — and underscore the need to reclaim planning in the public interest.

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    Mythologies of Placemaking

    Places Journal

    Designers and planners talk about “sense of place,” but this murky buzzword often serves to rally support for redevelopment projects that ignore deep patterns of local culture.

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