The Master of Environmental Design program is a two-year, tuition-free, research-based program culminating in an independent project. Started in 1967, the M.E.D. program remains one of the first and most intensive of its kind with a history that is particularly relevant today. The program has long addressed the aggregate of objects, networks, and socio-political inuences that shape spatial environments. Today that environmental scope turns to many interdependent contemporary issues including climate change, global inequality, racial injustice, large socio-technical organizations, and planetary political solidarity. Returning to its activist roots, the program conceives of design as a practice that applies disciplinary skills to new responsibilities and a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations that reach beyond the academy to address urgent issues.Studying contemporary and historical forces shaping climate change, inequality, racial injustice, land tenure, socio-technical infrastructures, and environmental justice, developing and advocating for innovative forms of design to reverse environmental/social abuse.