As this movement is growing rapidly, I would also like to publish a complementary series of invited essays here. I therefore invited authors with whose work I am familiar to contribute their thoughts on this crucial topic. As opinion pieces, these short contributions did not go through the normal external refereeing process. Nevertheless, I personally curated these essays and invariably suggested edits before accepting them for publication. Education reform is necessary to train a new generation of young architects who will re-shape the built environment to a more human scale. We need solutions to both the looming sustainability crisis, and the dehumanization of global society. The ultimate goal of this enterprise is to drastically change the way we design and build, and I hope that New Design Ideas can lead the world in this monumental task.

This document, originally published in New Design Ideas, Volume 3, No. 2 (2019) is officially shared with Architexturez for the benefit of students in South Asia by the publisher.