ARCH 506, Section 3

Design Activism + Social Justice
Fall 2025
Instructors: Craig Wilkins
Term: Fall 2025
Section: 3
Class Number: 22880
Credits: 3
Required: No
Elective: Yes
Meets: Mon 8:30-11:30am 3142 A&AB
Course Brief:

This course explores the history, theory and mechanisms through which architects, designers, planners and other socially-conscious activists put their professional skills in service to social change. We’ll discuss interventions, strategies, theories, and works that impact lives and hold the potential for significant social change over the long haul with an eye towards both advocacy planning and design activism.

This course does count as an architecture history elective for M.Arch 3G students.

Meets with ARCH 823-001