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Communication Leadership


July 14, 2025

New UW course connects the climate crisis to communications and design

A blue and green cover of a zine created for a climate communications course. The cover reads "What do design and communication have to do with the climate crisis? It's complicated. But it's worth thinking about."

“Communications & Design for the Environment,” a Communications Leadership course held for the first time this spring, University of Washington professors Adrienne Russell and Dominic Muren teach students how to examine the climate crisis and environmental problems from a perspective beyond the hard sciences.