2022-2023 Student Awards and Aronson Fellowships Updates

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!

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Tishman Center RA Enrique Valencia Published in Critical Planning Journal

In January 2023, Critical Planning published my article “Evaluating Meaningful Engagement Under Environmental Justice Mandates: A Case Study of California’s SB1000 Implementation in Santa Ana”. The article is connected to environmental justice (EJ) advocacy that fellow EJ organizers and I led in Santa Ana, CA.

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[RE-BLOG] Sustainability Town Hall Highlight

In recognition of Climate Week 2022, The Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC) hosted an online town hall to discuss sustainability at the New School. The format of this discussion was an attempt to bring faculty, staff, and students together to exchange knowledge and voice concerns about energy consumption and waste management. As the school aims for goals such as being “net zero” by 2050, it is essential that everyone is involved in the process of not just figuring out the when, but also the how.

2021 Faculty and Student Grant Applications Open!

Our student awards from the spring were a great success and we were happy to fund fourteen great student projects. We are happy to announce that we have opened the application for the next semester’s student & faculty grants! If you are interested, please see details below:

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2020 Student Awards Update Part 3

Our 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.

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2020 Student Awards Update Part 2

The 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.

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Meet our 2020 Aronson Fellow, Daniela Lam

Earlier 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.

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2020 Student Awards Update Part 1

We 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.

Awards, StudentsTishman CenterNovember 9, 2020student awards, Student Highlights, Climate Justice

There Was Never A New York "Pause" For The South Bronx

Here are some of the things you can't find during a pandemic: toilet paper, hand sanitizer, N95 masks, Nintendo Switches. As a kid growing up in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx in the late '80s and early '90s, fresh air was a commodity we couldn't find either. No pandemic required.

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Tishman Center Student Award for Environmental Justice and Equity

In light of all the tumult happening this semester, the Tishman Center felt a need to support environmental justice and equity work of students across the university. We put out a call for applications in April of 2020 and are proud to present the fourteen projects that we decided to support below. These projects represent almost all of the colleges across The New School and embody the transdisciplinary approach that both the university and the Tishman Center embarace as the best way to solve the issues of our time.

Recap of Online Earth Week 2020 Events

April is normally the busiest month for the Tishman Center, as the variety of programming focused on Earth Day that we have spent several months developing comes to life on campus. This year, however, in light of COVID-19, the Tishman Center, along with the rest of the world, had to rapidly readjust and find ways to transition towards a virtual format to ensure that we keep our community safe but still get a chance to connect.

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