Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)

extensive impact on the design of everything from the built environment to human-computer interfaces, from international architectural standards to the technical requirements of broadcast media and the internet,

we have to raise the question of whether algorithm design should be structured according to the logic of “fairness,” read as color and gender blindness, or according to the logic of racial, gender, and disability justice.

design for the margins.

but it has little to say about values, community accountability or control, or the ultimate distribution of benefits such as profits or attention.

Design Research Centre (IDRC)

Racial hierarchies can only be dismantled by actively antiracist systems design, not by pretending they don’t exist.

Many design approaches that are supposedly more inclusive, participatory, and democratic actually serve an extractive function.

Most PD processes also aim to develop feelings of investment and ownership in the outcome by all participants,

Design justice focuses on the ways that race, class, gender, and disability structure both information asymmetries and variance in user product needs.

cycle, the usefulness of the technology becomes biased towards one group.