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

Costanza-Chock's influential case for design justice — community-led practice that challenges structural inequality instead of reproducing it, tied to collective liberation and ecological survival. About as direct an expression of the SDF's Social-Responsibility motto and design-as-political as this list holds, enacted through Partners. Published by MIT Press in 2020, the book sets out design justice as an approach led by marginalised communities, aiming explicitly to challenge rather than reproduce structural inequality. It draws on a growing community of designers across disciplines who work closely with social movements and community-based organisations worldwide. Costanza-Chock argues that design justice goes beyond familiar calls for 'design for good', user-centred design or diversity in the design and technology professions, connecting design instead to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.