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Learning more about environmentalism and environmental justice has led me to political ecology. And how fvcked we are in the future if we do not deal with climate change in our spatial design.
How our cities and towns have been designed and continue to build on spatial injustice - some moved inner city and others in the periphery. Spaces as a social construct have serious socio-economic and environmental consequences.
These thought have led me to think seriously about spatial design and spatial imagination. How we see space? How are spaces constructed? Whose history is underrepresented and over-represented? Who belongs and who does not? And why are spaces such a contentious issue.
And thinking of this how to conceive development, access, social interactions, movement + migration, spatial symbolism + institutions, opportunity, safety and justice. Do people involved in designing our spaces, policies and laws think about this?
How is seen to belong and not belong? How our politics, social movements and popular culture inform how we construct and deconstruct space.
I have found and still finding material to unpack this - those who are interested, please comment with readings/videos etc.
I have found and still finding material to unpack this - those who are interested, please comment with readings/videos etc.
“Rethinking the Environment for the Anthropocene: Political Theory and Socionatural Relations in the New Geological Epoch” edited by Manuel Arias-Maldonado and Zev Trachtenberg.
How we understand space(s) and interpret them has an important consequence on how society functions - progression/regression + safety/violence + seen/not-seen + accessibility/inaccessibility + socio-economic realities + climate change/environmental + race/class/gender etc.
It informs what happens in our homes, in our neighborhoods, workspace, institutions and campuses etc.
So it’s not just a name, statue, house (whatever form), simply a campus, street, township, neighborhood, farm, town/city or building is has meaning, it creates meaning - it embraces or others, it privileges and/or deprives.
Space or spatial planning is important, very important.
Space or spatial planning is important, very important.
