In this moment, as we witness multiple genocides around the world— in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Kashmir, and elsewhere— it can feel easy to surrender to defeat and despair, and to sever ourselves from taking the risks that resistance truly demands.

What if we turn to land, and our relationships with plantcestral beings, as a source of strategy, a source of support through feelings of fear and inertia and defeat, an anchor for deepening into movement-building, a compass towards new possibilities? How have generations of violence and colonization ruptured our relationships with land, and how do these ruptures impact our sense of collaboration and capacity for community-building?

We invite you to join both gatherings or one, choosing which focus feels most relevant for you. These experiences are virtual, free, and open to people practicing (or curious about) Design Justice and Design Justice Principles. DJN Membership and previous attendance are not required. Design Justice Principles will be woven into each gathering and we will invite discussions that connect us back to creative, collaborative ways of working and being.

Too often, capitalist and ableist practices of urgency stifle possibilities for communal care to emerge within our workplaces, our communities, even our social movements. What can the wisdom of astrology teach us about our relationship to care amid systems of oppression? How can it act as a portal to a world in which we are all free? Join our November Care Pod Series, where healing justice practitioner Yoo-Jin Kang will guide us through using astrology as a tool in prototyping care ecosystems, toward interdependence and togetherness.

We invite you to join both gatherings or one, choosing which focus feels most relevant for you. These experiences are virtual, free, and open to people practicing (or curious about) Design Justice and Design Justice Principles. DJN Membership and previous attendance are not required. Design Justice Principles will be woven into each gathering and we will invite discussions that connect us back to creative, collaborative ways of working and being.

As we design the worlds we want, we know there will never be a world without conflict—but we can learn how to hold the multiplicity of our differences in ways that are generative, playful and authentic. Join our September Care Pod Series, where we’ll experience framing conflict as play with somatic healing practitioner, Meenadchi, whose work centers social change and embodied transformation.

We invite you to join one or both gatherings, choosing which focus feels most relevant for you. These experiences are virtual, free, and open to people practicing (or curious about) Design Justice and Design Justice Principles. DJN Membership and previous attendance are not required. Design Justice Principles will be weaved into each gathering and we will invite discussions that connect us back to creative, collaborative ways of working and being.