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Innovating from the margins
CoLab is using Participatory Action Research to inform local development efforts and, via immersive engagements in the field, train students in the skills and methods of collaborative innovation with communities at the margins.
3 Questions: urban planning's role in racial and social justice
Urban planning is implicated in the failures of policy and institutions that have led to unequal suffering from Covid-19 and police violence against unarmed black and brown men and women. Planning must also play a critical role in addressing these crises
Applying Covid-19's Hard-Earned Lessons to Climate Change
Watch CoLab Executive Director Dayna Cunningham discuss how inequities revealed in the global response to COVID can inform efforts to advance equity in global climate action: The New York Times’ “Netting Zero, Applying Covid-19’s Hard-Earned Lessons to Climate Change,” a timely debate moderated by NYT Climate Editor Hannah Fairfield.
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