Designing the Just Transition

Damian White is Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies and Dean of Liberal Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. White has published four books to date in the fields of environmental design studies including Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (2008), and Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader (2011).Nicholas Pevzner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and a Faculty Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at Penn, USA

• 1. Resisting the 'It’s Too Late-ocene'2. Just Transitions and Design for Transitions 3. The Legacies and Limits of Sustainable/Eco/Green Design4. The Institutional Gap in Critical Design Studies5. The Green New Deal, Landscape, Infrastructure and Public Imagination6. Labor Centered Design for Sustainability7. Racial Capitalism and The Power Geometries of Post-carbon Transitions 8. Design Futuring for Impermanence and Radical Ongoingness 9. Planetary Designs?Bibliography Index

Our societies need massive and rapid transitions. White and Pevsner provide three badly missing things to that challenge. They bring labour politics to the practice of transition design, design to talk of just transitions, and critical histories to visioning more sustainable future societies. Designing the Just Transition will remind systems change oriented designers that their agency lies in acknowledging that they also are labourers who must act in solidarity across scales.