num_pages: 360
description: 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 explicitly 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 peoplespecifically 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.
language: English
title: Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
publisher: The MIT Press