Is designing and producing architecture a political act? Or are architects merely serving the client and the building they had done has nothing to do with politics.  (That is what Patrik Schumacher, a star architect suggested). When architects and urban planners and other professionals need to deal with issues on sustainability together, are they collaborating to create a better society, hence is a 'political gesture' ( our counter argument).Another factor is designing for social equity.Dr. Robert Bullard, climate justice pioneer and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University in Houston, states that architects and urban planners need to tackle social challenges with an interdisciplinary team approach.“Today, there are a lot of projects dealing with issues around sustainability, climate resilience, walkability, and equity. But if the architects don’t build equity and health into the framing for these projects, you will get more gentrification and more exclusivity. You’ll get more places that are somehow islands – that don’t provide any heterogeneity in terms of ethnicity, in terms of income, in terms of kinds of occupations of the people who live there,” he states in an interview.© 2020 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd YaacobArt work in podcast is elevations by Wong Chiang Her on his Old Town Botanic Gardens design thesis project 2019-20 Drawing  © Copyright: Universiti Malaya, Author: Wong Chiang HerSupport the show