Justice By Design

Catalog description

This course explores how systems of oppression and inequity are designed—and can be redesigned. Students will examine equity-based design approaches that address power, privilege, and oppression, ensuring fair distribution of benefits and burdens, inclusive participation, and recognition of diverse design practices. Through methods like asset-based community building, mutuality, and co-creation, students will learn to cultivate equity and justice. By the course’s end, students will apply these methods to their own work and develop actionable strategies for equity by design.