DJN Activities and Workshop Resources

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Who participated, who was harmed and who benefitted?

Check out this activity, based on a project in Detroit. Please use and modify to your particular context/situation or project. We see this as a useful resource for new Local Nodes, Working groups of the network, or others trying to introduce Design Justice into a new context!

RESOURCE DOWNLOAD (one page PDF) (*Text from the PDF is below, for translation purposes)

Who participated, who was harmed and who benefitted? (Activity text)

  1. In groups, look at three Detroit “design for change” stories:
    a) DETROIT FUTURE CITY https//vimeo.com/96930973
    b) SHINOLA http//www.bloomberg.com/news/ videos/b/05125438-2cf9-4784-a515- 30549ee39d97
    c) EMPWR coat http://www.empowermentplan.org

  2. Recorded the “characters” in the story in a Venn diagram to understand
    a) Who is involved in the design process?
    b) Who is harmed?
    c) Who benefits?

  3. Look at the design process: Define the problem
    a) Research
    b) Creative
    c) Develop & produce
    d) Deliver & distribute
    e) Evaluate

  4. Each group redesigned one part of the process by responding to these prompts:
    a) Who should participate?
    b) What are they motivated by?
    c) What do they have to offer?
    d) What methods could be used?

  5. Individually or collaboratively, responded to these prompts:
    a) Design justice is…
    b) We do this by...

Venn diagram to use in #2

Visioning Exercise

Created by: DJN Philly Node members, Andrea Ngan & Ila Kumar (planned and facilitated)

RESOURCE DOWNLOAD (Multi-page PDF)

Design Justice Workshop

This page IS NOT exhaustive - and is a work in progress (updated Jan 2022). We will add activities/resources here as more are developed. Please take a look, and any feedback is always welcome!