Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

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Sasha Costanza-Chock (Assistant Professor of Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Design Justice

Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Sasha Costanza-Chock (Assistant Professor of Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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MIT Press
03 March 2020

Individual designers; Science funding & policy; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Information Policy

"An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.

What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? ""Design justice"" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world.

This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people-specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)-and invites readers to ""build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability."" Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival."

By: Sasha Costanza-Chock (Assistant Professor of Civic Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
ISBN: 9780262043458
ISBN 10: 0262043459
Series: Information Policy
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 03 March 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a board member of Allied Media Projects (alliedmedia.org), and the author of numerous articles and two books. Their first book is Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (MIT Press).

Reviews for Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Books like [Design Justice] offer insight into the history of disability and ideas for building on the ADA's foundation of basic protections to create a more just world for the variety of humans who inhabit it. -The Washington Post Constanza-Chock viscerally articulates the glaring gap between those who design commercial surveillance technology and those on whom it is used. -Public Books