As scientific consensus about global warming gains traction with the public, this panel explores how such knowledge—and the environmental strategies it prompts—should be expressed visually. With Dr. Cameron Tonkinwise, Charles M. Blow, and Mitchell Joachim. Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com.

Dr. Cameron Tonkinwise is chair of the Design Thinking and Sustainability program at the School of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design. He was previously director of Design Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Before joining the UTS factulty, Cameron was the executive officer of Change Design, a nonprofit independent research organization. For more than a decade, his research and professional activities have brought together the philosophies of design and sustainability, and have focused in particular on the design of commercial and non-market systems of shared product use and how the emerging discipline of service design might enable the development of less material-dependant economies.

Charles M. Blow is the New York Times’s visual Op-Ed columist. His column appears in the paper every other Saturday. Blow joined the New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director, a position he held for nine years. In that role, he led the Times to a best-of-show award from the Society of News Design for the Times’s information graphics coverage of 9/11, the first time the award had been given for graphics coverage. Blow went on to become the paper’s Design Director for news before leaving in 2006 to become the art director of National Geographic. Blow graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a BA in mass communications.

Mitchell Joachim, PhD, is a partner at the nonprofit organization Terreform 1. Currently he is faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, Michael Sorkin Studio, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Joachim has been awarded the Moshe Safdie and Assoc. Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York, and Time magazine’s Best Invention of the Year 2007 for the Compacted Car, designed with the MIT Smart Cities Group. Terreform 1 is a nonprofit organization and philanthropic design collaborative that integrates ecological principles in the urban environment.