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Critical Environmentalism (CE) explores corresponding epistemological frameworks across wide- ranging socio-environmental dynamics and their relations with architectural endeavors, primarily within urban development as comprising the greatest number of intersections between human constructions and the greater environmental domain. CE draws together environmental issues emerging across theoretical stances and fosters critical approaches to knowledge integration, amalgamating multiple stakeholder perspectives within an operational goal of co-creative communal development and betterment of the human condition in relation to environmental concerns. Situating the environment as an interconnecting catalyst between divergent points-of- view, CE promotes multi-methodological, co-enabling frameworks that foster increased participatory dynamics, communal vitality, and productive interchanges that cultivate an overall quality of knowing and well-being within the intricacies of the greater domain. As such, it engages broader definitions for architecture, significantly embodied and epistemologically co-substantiating within a shared, socio-environmental life-place.

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Craig Anz holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design, a Master of Architecture, a Master of Architectural Studies, and a Ph.D. assembling epistemology, critical social theory, environmental discourse, architecture, and urban development. He is an architect and a professor of architectural studies at Southern Illinois University.

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