At the end of this past August, our Care Pod’s two-year journey of creating a soft, regenerative space for dreaming and designing liberatory cultures of care came to a close with celebration and collective storytelling by coordinators, guest practitioners, and past participants.
Read MoreHello Design Justice Network family,
We just wanted to let you all know that we are organizing, mobilizing, donating, listening, gathering information, and trying to hold space for reflection. We're focused on long term transformation and lifting up movements that can build the worlds we need, worlds without antiblackness.
We're building towards our Network Gathering at the Allied Media Conference in July to help channel the energy and spirit of today's movements into the future.
We're sharing links to resources, calls to action, and reflections that we've been reading, internally on slack and publicly via our social media channels.
We'd also love to hear and amplify DJN members' and signatories’ reflections, writings, actions, and creative work. Please share within the network via slack in channel #inspiration, and if you are comfortable doing so publicly, share using the #designjustice hashtag on instagram, twitter, and other social media. Tag us, and we will amplify.
Stay safe. We love you.
Pictured above: A visual representation of the above intentions, by the Design Justice Network - 4 square images, outlined with various imagery and icons surrounding the text. Ends with Stay safe. We love you. #BlackLivesMatter #DesignJustice (visual assistance to the text).
The Design Justice Network Steering Committee had a retreat in early April. We welcomed new Steering Committee member Denise Shanté Brown, built community and shared intentions, and explored some of the challenges and opportunities of the rapid recent growth of the network. Check out this post to learn more!
Read MoreLike all of you, we are doing our best to stay calm, support our families, friends, and communities, #StayHome as much as possible, and wash our hands. It's a difficult time, and many in our network are exploring how to take care of ourselves and one another from a distance.
We have a few updates that we've been meaning to share for a while, so here they are (please read!).
Read MoreThe redesign was a coordinated effort between the DJN Steering Committee and the Website Working Group, along with feedback from Design Justice Network Principles Signatories and Members (that means you!) The site has a fresh new look, and contains additional information and functionality. The new designjusticenetwork.org will help communicate our vision and activities as the network continues to grow.
Read MoreWe were so excited about the existence of the Design Justice Network! We want to build on the incredible work carried out by the original Northern American group to set up a Mediterranean network of people that resonate with similar intersectional feminist values and work so that we can exchange and reshape design practices together. Our focus on the Mediterranean is to reclaim an identity around this geography….
Read MoreHello everyone,
After several months of gestation, we are excited to announce that the Design Justice Network is emerging into a new phase of growth!
Read MoreHello Design Justice Network!
The Design Justice Network organizes people from a variety of design backgrounds including graphic, architecture, planning, visual art, and people who are impacted by design, to create work and processes according to a set of shared principles. Here are a couple important updates:
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1. Finalized principles
2. Design Justice Track @ AMC 2018
3. Getting more involved & supporting the network
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The Design Justice Network Gathering brought together 30 design practitioners and community organizers who work in social justice and who wanted to connect around and collectively define the concept of Design Justice.
Read MoreOn June 21, 2015, 30 people gathered in a session called “Generating Shared Principles for Design Justice” at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit. The participants identified as designers, artists, technologists, and community organizers
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