Concept 2 Urban Sprout Farms ecovillage lodging. By Jennifer Simonton, Isabella Teran, and Brigid Wright

Parsons SCE faculty have been an immense source of support, inspiration, leadership and community work. And while finding a perfect media blurb to summarize their projects, vision, pedagogy and activism may feel like a nice digital sleight of hands allowing to shed more light on years of challenging practice, those stories require more than resharing and clicktivism. 

Mark Gardner has recently talked to Architect Magazine and provided his reflections on systemic racism, the value of support networks, topologies of local neighborhoods, and advocacy for change. We encourage you to read the full piece that is now available at the following link:

“The same conversations are still going on. They haven’t changed because the environments are the same.”