Strategic Plan 2020-2023
It is our pleasure to share our new three-year strategic plan, which was completed early this summer. Tishman Center staff worked with an outside evaluator to streamline and update the goals and outcomes from our previous plan while looking to make our work more comprehensive. We also worked with key stakeholders across our community, including our affiliated faculty to refine our goals and measurements for the new plan.
The plan was also motivated by a pressing need to combat the climate crisis and push The New School to not only declare a climate emergency declaration but to also facilitate the creation of a new climate action plan that weaves environmental and climate justice into the DNA of the university.
The 2020 - 2023 Strategic Plan is organized according to two overarching goals:
1. Serve as a resource center and hub for movement building and climate and environmental justice research, design and interdisciplinary practice.
The Tishman Center offers support in the form of a movement building fellowship, interdisciplinary research and practice, as well as design and policy expertise. The Center works with a wide range of groups including community-based organizations, environmental and climate justice coalitions and networks, advocates and policymakers. Our work is guided by the Jemez Principles with an emphasis on critical, participatory research and the co-production of inclusive, bottom-up approaches that amplify the knowledge of frontline and environmental justice communities.
2. Mobilize students, staff, faculty and our broader community to take action on the root causes of the climate crisis and concomitant social and environmental injustices.
The Center does this in a variety of ways: leading efforts on an inclusive Climate Emergency Action Plan; creating opportunities for staff, students, faculty and our larger community to learn about and act on environmental justice and climate change; sharing best practices; and experimenting with programming and practices that invite innovation, transdisciplinarity, design thinking and solidarity with frontline communities.