

Design Justice
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Author: Sasha Costanza-Chock
Narrator: Megan Tusing
Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/24/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Technology & Engineering, Social Aspects, Art
Synopsis
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 listeners 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.