Designing for Justice

🌱 What is design? Design is the process of planning, defining, and shaping the environments in which we live. Everything we interact with has been designed — from the phone in our pocket, to the trains we travel with and the education system we have attended. 🌱 What does the design process look l

🌱 What role do equity and access play in design? Design considerations, and their social justice implications, play a role in building and maintaining equality. At its core, who products and services are designed for is an equity and access question. Design products are often seen as niche luxury i

🌱 Can design play a role in achieving justice? In a world where almost everything around us is designed in some shape or form, design matters. How “things” are made and by whom, how they function, what they deliver and fail to deliver, whose interests they serve and exclude, and what short and long

🌱 What change is needed? To achieve an environmentally and socially just world, over-consuming lifestyles, and the design that comes with it, needs to change. Design and innovation play a key role in this shift. 🌱 What is the potential for design? Design has the potential of asking the difficult

🌱 What is the impact of design on environmental justice? Designing for usability, energy efficiency, reparably, and longevity all have the potential to play a key role in environmental justice. Notably, according to the Ellen McArthur Foundation[i] and Dr. Natacha Tréhan, an expert in procurement a