How can murals be catalysts for climate and community action?
By David Maddox
December 11, 2025
Murals are everywhere now—on schoolyards and salt boxes, buses and armories, waterfronts and wildlife refuges. They are declarations made in public, at the scale of daily life. And increasingly, they’re asked to do more than beautify: to cool streets, catalyze coalitions, shift behaviors, and tell a truer story about who “we” are and what futures we’re willing to work for. This roundtable brings together artists, planners, scientists, and civic leaders living inside that question: how can murals be catalysts for climate and community action?
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