For our June 2022 special feature on climate justice, RECORD spoke to changemakers in the field for a diverse array of perspectives on social justice and the climate emergency.

Smith Mordak, an architect, writer, and curator, has devoted their career to issues of sustainability and social justice in the built environment. Prior to joining London-based engineering firm Buro Happold in 2020, they co-founded Interrobang Architecture and Engineering, a transdisciplinary team within Webb Yates Engineers focused on reducing embodied carbon. A council member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Mordak was appointed in 2017 as the Mayor’s Design Advocate for the City of London, serving on the Ecological Urbanism Sounding Board. As a member of the steering committee of environmental activist collective Architects Declare, they contributed to “Built for the Environment,” a report highlighting the building industry’s role in the climate crisis, which was presented at COP26 last year.