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

Sasha Costanza-Chock

ISBN 10: 0262043459 / ISBN 13: 9780262043458

Published by MIT Press Ltd, 2020

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Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need | Sasha Costanza-Chock | Taschenbuch | Information Policy | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2020 | MIT Press Ltd | EAN 9780262043458 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262043459
• ISBN 13: 9780262043458
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 156H x 30D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 489 grams
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).