Design Justice
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
$86.38
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2020
Summary
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.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 expilcitl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043458 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262043459 |
| Author: | Sasha Costanza-Chock |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Information Policy |
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2021 PROSE Award Winner, Engineering & Technology Category
“Books like [Design Justice] offer insight into the history of disability and ideas for building on the ADA’s foundation of basic protections to create a more just world for the variety of humans who inhabit it.“—The Washington Post
“Constanza-Chock viscerally articulates the glaring gap between those who design commercial surveillance technology and those on whom it is used.”
—Public Books
About The Author
Sasha Costanza-Chock
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).
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