To coincide with Greenpeace's 50th anniversary, Dezeen teamed up with Michael Green Architecture and Greenpeace to host a live talk to discuss the relationship between design and activism.
The talk, titled Design, Activism and Impact, was moderated by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, and explored whether designers are doing enough to resolve environmental concerns or whether are they complicit in exacerbating them.
Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler appeared on the panel alongside Canadian architect Michael Green of Michael Green Architecture and Nina-Marie Lister, professor and graduate director of Urban & Regional Planning at Ryerson University.
Greenpeace was founded 50 years ago in Vancouver, Canada, with the ambition to stop nuclear testing and then joined the fight to prevent whale hunting. Since then, the organisation has evolved into a global environmental movement that addresses widespread issues such as climate change, social inequity and threatened democracy.
Reflecting on the organisation's 50 years of activism, the panel explored where designers and architects fit into the wider conversation of environmental justice and what more can be done by the design industry to address the climate emergency.
Rex Weyler is co-founder of Greenpeace
Weyler is a writer and ecologist based in British Columbia, Canada. Weyler has written a number of historical books including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Blood of the Land, a history of indigenous American na...