CoSEP
COLLECTIVE for SOCIO-SPATIAL
& ENVIRONMENTAL PRAXIS
UC DAVIS
RESEARCH TRACKS AND THEMES
ABOUT
Established in Dec 2023, CoSEP undertakes transdisciplinary,
research-driven projects to address the socio-spatial and political nature of designing and governing the built environment to facilitate the fullness of life. CoSEP's projects lie at the intersection of design, technology, governance, and social justice. We are committed to praxis, or the reflective manner of combining theory and practice to achieve and sustain just futures. CoSEP is housed at the University of California, Davis, on the land of the home of the Patwin people.
© Akshita Sivakumar 2023 - 2024
WHO WE ARE
CoSEP -- The Collective for Spatial and Environmental Praxis -- is a research group focused on creative and critical approaches to addressing the political, socio-spatial, and sociotechnical nature of designing and governing the built environment. CoSEP's projects lie at the intersection of design, technology, governance, and social justice. CoSEP is based out of the University of California, Davis, and is housed in the Department of Design.
The team includes:
Akshita Sivakumar, Ph.D
Director
(she/her)
A designer, architect, and technoscience studies scholar, I am an Assistant Professor of Design at the University of California, Davis. My work lies at the confluence of governance, social movements, technology, and spatiality. My current research project examines how technologies of participation impact the relationship between environmental governance and solidarities within and across the environmental justice movement in California’s efforts toward air pollution mitigation and decarbonization. My in-progress book monograph analyzes the effects of how computing and electronic technologies mediate environmental governance and environmental justice in California. Previously, I practiced as an architect, primarily designing education institutions and hospitals.
GRAD STUDENTS
- Diego Martinez Fernandez del Castill
- Jordan Blandino
COLLABORATORS
- Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
SPECIAL THANKS
CoSEP is grateful for the support of:
- College of Letters and Sciences
- UC Davis Department of Design Makerspace (Jeffery Farley and Ofelia Viloche Pulido)