Books and Literature
Most of the books are available on open-source sites for free. There might be more resources in the community around other parts of the world, so if you don’t see it here, please email me and I’ll add it to the list. monti@designandracialequity.com
By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
A cornerstone of the design justice movement. Explores how design can challenge structural inequities across race, gender, and disability.
By: Anthony Dunne + Fiona Raby
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Being able to move design from general to explore all the intersections and implications of new developments. That includes social dreaming and learning to create moments that unpack new connections and equity.
Design Justice 101 Talk with Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock
Using a system-science approach in order to understand the complex mechanisms that drive the health disparities of stigmatized populations, in particular, gender and sexual minorities.
The Black Experience in Design
Using a system-science approach in order to understand the complex mechanisms which drive the health disparities of stigmatized populations, in particular gender and sexual minorities.
By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Illustrations By: Ane Agi
Decolonizing Design, A Cultural Justice Guidebook
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Learn more how patriarchal data designed to amplify voices of those with access to privilege based on gender. Data in the modern world from healthcare, to education, and public policy is filled with discrimination and bias. Leaving the future of systems and people in marginalized spaces in harm.
Videos and Visuals
Articles
By: Creative Reaction Lab
Field Guide: Equity Centered Community Design
This booklet is a social innovation tool for those in movement building spaces. Guiding you with tools to focus on human-centered design and communications that focuses on policy changes.
By: Alice Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Community storytelling from lived experiences is missing from data collection, leadership, and policy initiatives. This book explores moments in disability culture in the now and future.
There might be more resources in the community around other parts of the world, so if you don’t see it here, please email me and I’ll add it to the list. monti@designandracialequity.com
Centering Lived Experience Experts as Equity Designers, Creative Reaction Labs
Learn how this type of civic engagement and the redesigning for justice movement can move us to reshape the narrative -- creating a just world through authentic collaboration and community-centered approaches in the design process.
Anne H. Berry (Managing Editor), Kelly Walters (Creative Director), Jennifer Rittner (Development Editor), Lesley-Ann Noel, Penina Laker, Kareem Collie
The Black Experience in Design: Identity Expression + Reflection
A collective effort to capture the current moment of cultural reflection, as well as to consider the futures we are creating together.
By: adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Systems change requires us to explore creative ways to design our own strategy for living. From policy change to environmental climate injustices. We are experiencing changes that shouldn’t hold us back, but propel us forward. Learning to develop not only a visual mindset, but an internal spiritual one that transforms us all.
Can Design Dismantle Racism? Antoinette Carol
Take a deeper look at how design can be used to view the world and understand how systemic racism is a major component of it.
There might be more resources in the community around other parts of the world, so if you don’t see it here, please email me and I’ll add it to the list. monti@designandracialequity.com