As an architect, I often find myself at odds with a profession that, on one hand, believes architecture’s role is too large to be concerned with the plight of communities most in need, and yet too ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction: #TravelingWhileTrans, Design ...

What is the relationship between design, power and social justice? In their book, “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need” (MIT Press, 2020), researcher and designer Sasha ...

For four days architects, planners, urbanists, and other designers from across the country will gather to exchange ideas and partake in workshops and discussions to address injustices in the built ...

“Design justice is about how we build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability,” says Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of the new ...

This article is published in partnership with: Every day, hundreds of people walk, run, and bike along the Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans, one of the city’s newest parks. Bordering the central path ...

This was one of the core ideas animating the 2023 HASTAC Critical Making & Social Justice conference, which brought together hundreds of artists, academics, designers, community organizers, and ...

Opinion: Design Justice is a fundamentally different way of understanding who and what a city is for Dublin is a city in the midst of a crisis. Housing has become a luxury rather than a right, pushing ...