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