Labor, Just Transition, and the Green New Deal with Damian White

Cities@Tufts Lectures

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn.

Both tensions and insights emerge when design and environmental labor studies are drawn together.

While design has long been closely allied with fulfilling the needs of capital, Damian White argues that there have been some remarkable moments in the history of design where socialists, anarchists, feminists, environmentalists, post and decolonial activists, scholars, and citizens have proposed stunning visions for how our worlds could be redesigned for more worker-friendly and sustainable futures.

On today’s show, Damian will explore how recent calls for design to play a central role in moving the Green New Deal forward might allow greater alignment between struggles for industrial democracy, design democracy, just transitions, and climate justice.

Damian White is presently working on a new book called Climate Futures, Design, and the Just Transition.

Learn more about his work by visiting: www.risd.edu/people/damian-white.

Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from The Kresge Foundation.

Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Meghan Tenhoff, and Perri Sheinbaum. Robert Raymond is our audio editor, Elizabeth Carr manages communications and editorial with support from Neal Gorenflo, Joslyn Beile handles operations, and the series is produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.

“Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.