Arts, design, architecture & planning

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

Name: Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Author: Sasha Costanza-Chock

By Sasha Costanza-Chock, associate professor of civic media

MIT Press · 2020

"Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. This book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices and connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.

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From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).

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