#designjustice

[dualisticunity]

Female Engineers Have Redesigned the Speculum - Dualistic Unity

What changes when the people most affected by a problem finally design the solution? Sometimes progress isn’t technological—it’s experiential. https://dualisticunity.com/female-engineers-have-redesigned-the-speculum/

[bubbleplan]

Design as protest. 🖤 #Repost @colloqate (@get_repost) ・・・ We appreciate everyone who came to the call today in the design justice movement! More than 1000 people joined to take the first steps. Now it’s time to do the work. We anticipate that you are motivated toward action in your communities and in defense of Black Lives so join us! For meeting summary and next steps go to bit.ly/dap-form and sign up. THESE ARE OUR IMMEDIATE DEMANDS! SHARE WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED TO SIGN ON. #DesignAsProtest #Design4blacklives #DesignJustice (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBNh5PWh_CeJu2E-ont3FgTEcVTDMT7uc_XiSc0/?igshid=kvp7o06au9sk

[kellyowarrior]

#GraphicDesign #DesignJustice ♥️✅🖤✅ the police came - i still got some social media mojo - one ☝️ car 🚔on the corner #Cabbagetown ❤️🖤🍀🌹💅👜🌂🎉🍾📜☔️🔥🎉 it got complicated cause i couldn’t make it - sorry Officer Bob for the false alarm 🚨 if that was u in the car 🚓 i could see from down the street - tomorrow is the celebration of life for the old woman - it’s going to be harder than I thought to say goodbye so i wasn’t able to be in solidarity with #GrassyNarrows at that corner today as I hoped @billmorneau will get a visit another day though - I promise cause I know the Fiberals are #AssHats 🤠 & let people die since some of us don’t matter enough to people with money & privilege 🤮🤑🤮 my MP Bill Morneau FORGOT to claim his wife’s #FrenchVilla on his #taxes 🎩🤠🎩 #WaterIsLife #RiverRun #NoTMX #TorCen #MercuryPoisioning our government DID THAT or allowed it to happen to the Indigenous peoples of Grassy Narrows & it is another one of our collective responsibilities to address - what will you do to stop them from killing our planet & more people for the sake of profit? #CapitalismKills #BlackSnake #PipeLine #cupe #canlab #CDNpoli (at Morneau Bill MP) https://www.instagram.com/p/By8xkRSgvbe/?igshid=1awu2duwqrdv6

[sayeewangwonder]

Design Justice Network Principles — Design Justice

[designagainstdesign]

Design Justice Network (2016—)

We are striving to create design practices that center those who stand to be most adversely impacted by design decisions in design processes. We work to challenge the ways that design and designers harm Indigenous peoples, communities of color, poor and working class people, the sick and disabled, migrants, LGBTQ people, women and femmes. We use design to imagine and build the world we need to live in — one that is safe and just. We do this by producing work that is based on shared principles of design justice, by growing our international network of design practitioners and advocates, creating critical publications, and curating exhibitions.

Design Justice Network Principles

This is a living document.

Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected by design decisions — about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of our communities, or the structure of our political and economic systems — tend to have the least influence on those decisions and how they are made.

Design justice rethinks design processes, centers people who are normally marginalized by design, and uses collaborative, creative practices to address the deepest challenges our communities face.

1. We use design to sustain, heal, and empower our communities, as well as to seek liberation from exploitative and oppressive systems.

2. We center the voices of those who are directly impacted by the outcomes of the design process.

3. We prioritize design’s impact on the community over the intentions of the designer.

4. We view change as emergent from an accountable, accessible, and collaborative process, rather than as a point at the end of a process.

5. We see the role of the designer as a facilitator rather than an expert.

6. We believe that everyone is an expert based on their own lived experience, and that we all have unique and brilliant contributions to bring to a design process.

7. We share design knowledge and tools with our communities.

8. We work towards sustainable, community-led and -controlled outcomes.

9. We work towards non-exploitative solutions that reconnect us to the earth and to each other.

10. Before seeking new design solutions, we look for what is already working at the community level. We honor and uplift traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge and practices.

—designjusticenetwork.org

[extendedlearning]

Una Lee about _Community Centered Design

- There is a difference between who benefits and who participates and we have to consider who can be harmed.

- She uses the Lense of Design Justice ex: contratados.org is like a yelp for migrant workers

- Process:

1. Starting the work where it is already happening. ex: people were already complaining and recommending workers in facebook

2. Immerse research, to gather input

3. Looping back, involving people, showing them the prototypes and design

4. Build on existing relationships & community organizations efforts

5. Stewardship, once the project/tool is out, it is not the team that designed it but the community that will lead it