Dear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
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- Taylor Simone and Victoria Barnett, DJN International Network Coordinators, and the DJN Communications team!
Read MoreHi Everyone! While the network has been growing, so have the various needs and opportunities for more support! We are seeking some folks to volunteer some time, on an ongoing basis. These are volunteer roles that could replace your DJN membership dues, if that is interesting to you
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
This month, we opened up the Network’s visioning process with some initial long-standing DJN members that have participated in organizing, volunteering, and facilitating and we can’t wait to share some of this with the rest of the network in the upcoming months! Thank you to everyone who participated and supported this process. We also welcome the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) node officially to the network (details below), and for those who are Montreal (or surrounding area) based, you’ll see a callout below for a new node coming together there! We are re-highlighting DJN member, Nushin Yazdani, this month, and of course, provide links to various paid and volunteer opportunities (and more), in this newsletter! Thank you to the new DJN Communications team, who is working to make these newsletters more concise, and also for the new online format that you are reading/viewing here!
Thank you for reading, and if you have any thoughts/feedback or ideas for these newsletters, please do get in touch with us!
- Taylor Simone and Victoria Barnett, DJN International Network Coordinators, and the new DJN Communications team!
Read MoreStarting Sept 27 - Oct 3, 2021, our Steering Committee team and staff will begin our third week-long seasonal pause.
With an orientation toward creating more rest within design justice, please read more about it.
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
This month, we opened up the Network’s visioning process with some initial long-standing DJN members that have participated in organizing, volunteering, and facilitating and we can’t wait to share some of this with the rest of the network in the upcoming months! Thank you to everyone who participated and supported this process. We also welcome the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) node officially to the network (details below), and for those who are Montreal (or surrounding area) based, you’ll see a callout below for a new node coming together there! We are re-highlighting DJN member, Nushin Yazdani, this month, and of course, provide links to various paid and volunteer opportunities (and more), in this newsletter! Thank you to the new DJN Communications team, who is working to make these newsletters more concise, and also for the new online format that you are reading/viewing here!
Thank you for reading, and if you have any thoughts/feedback or ideas for these newsletters, please do get in touch with us!
- Taylor Simone and Victoria Barnett, DJN International Network Coordinators, and the new DJN Communications team!
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
The Design Justice Network Steering Committee (and staff) have been busy over the last year working with Corina Fadel on our mission, vision and strategic intentions process. Through this process we have found the need and space for additional network support. We are extremely excited to introduce you all to Taylor Simone, who joins Victoria Barnett in the role of International Network Coordinator! To read more about Taylor, please visit our Staff page.
We are also excited to open up this visioning process with the network…
Dear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
While we continue in the ongoing struggle to resist fascism, we are imagining, with you, new worlds and experiences rooted in joy, care and the gradual hope to eliminate the pandemic that has hit everyone, worldwide. Our Design Justice Network mission, vision and strategic intentions process is ongoing, and we look forward to sharing this with you in the near future.
As a reminder, the Design Justice Network (Steering Committee and Staff) will begin our second quarterly Pause next week: June 28 - July 4 (Upcoming Pauses are also: Fall: Sept 27 - Oct 3 and Winter: Dec 20 - Jan 2 (extended end-of-year)). We’re learning how to model what it means to approach the work of design justice differently, in hopes that DJN members, signatories, friends, and other movements can integrate time to pause as well!
Read MoreStarting June 28 through July 4th, our Steering Committee team and staff will begin our second week-long seasonal pause.
With an orientation toward creating more rest within design justice, please read more about it.
Read MoreHi Everyone! While the network has been growing, so have the various needs and opportunities for more support! We are seeking some folks to volunteer some time, on an ongoing basis. These are volunteer roles that could replace your DJN membership dues, if that is interesting to you
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
We believe in care for the health of our network and for ourselves; The Design Justice Network (Steering Committee and Staff) held their first quarterly pause, April 26 - May 2, 2021, and will host three other pauses this year: Summer: June 28 - July 4, Fall: Sept 27 - Oct 3 and Winter: Dec 20 - Jan 2 (extended end-of-year break). Taking an intentional pause is a living expression of aligning design justice work with practices of care. We’re learning how to model what it means to approach the work of design justice differently, in hopes that DJN members, signatories, friends, and other movements can integrate time to pause as well!
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Read MoreThis month, we are featuring the work of Max Masure, (they/them), is an Ethical UX Researcher, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant, Author, and Public Speaker.
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Read More2020 was difficult for reasons we are all too aware of. Yet as the Steering Committee met to consider everything that our network accomplished last year, we realized that we feel good, we feel calm, and we feel nourished by all of the work and play of the Design Justice Network (DJN) in 2020.
You can read and download “A complex and beautiful year in review: 2020 Membership Report”: https://designjustice.org/2020-membership-report
Read MoreStarting April 26 through May 2nd, our Steering Committee team and staff will begin our first week-long seasonal pause.
With an orientation toward creating more rest within design justice, please read more about it.
Read MoreThe Technology in the Public Interest program worked with the Design Justice Network Steering Committee, Wesley Taylor and Sasha Costanza-Chock to host an intensive design justice workshop for MacArthur Foundation staff on April 14th, 2021.
Read MoreThis month, we are featuring the work of Jorn Bettin, an autistic anthropologist by birth and a knowledge archaeologist by autodidactic training. He has a background in mathematics, and has put his understanding of formal symbolic reasoning to good use in the co-design of ecosystems of visual domain specific languages, working closely with domain experts from a broad range of industries in transdisciplinary contexts. Jorn has been involved in operating S23M since 2002. His current work focuses on the co-design of new community-oriented and patient centric models of care, including supporting software tools. Jorn has co-authored a number of books on creative collaboration and model driven product line engineering, and he is part of the Autistic Collaboration Trust – a global mutual support hub for neurodivergent individuals and ventures.
Read MoreThis month, we are featuring the work of Valérie Lechêne & Lindsay Miller, who are DJN members who both attended Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel’s DJN Member Stories Share session.
Valérie Lechêne wrote the article below, and Lindsay Miller drew the illustrations and supported with documentation.
Valérie Lechêne - Val practices design, research, and organizing at the nexus of climate action, housing justice, and information architecture. Among other activities, she is an active member of The-Architecture-Lobby where she co-organizes the Architects Beyond Capitalism school and the campaign for an internationalist just transition (Green New Deal). She loves the poetry of Stella Nyanzi.
Lindsay Miller - Lindsay Miller is an applied technology and video game design researcher and artist/illustrator working out of San Diego, CA in the USA. She loves finding spaces where her design research and illustration skills can intersect, especially to support the creation of more accessible and inclusive futures. You can learn more about her applied design research work here or her illustration here.
If you are a DJN member doing interesting work, and would like to be featured in a future newsletter or blog post, please email us at designjusticenetwork@gmail.com.
Read MoreThis month, we are featuring the Consentful Tech Project, https://www.consentfultech.io. Directly quoting from their website, “A lot of us have heard about consent with regard to our physical bodies, like in the context of medical decisions or sexual activities. But what does consent mean when it comes to our data and our digital lives?
Consentful technologies are digital applications and spaces that are built with consent at their core, and that support the self-determination of people who use and are affected by these technologies.
Read MoreLocal Nodes are a key part of a thriving network. Just as in botany, where a node is the part of a plant stem where new leaves emerge, a local node within the Design Justice Network is a space for local members to gather and grow design justice related projects, ideas, processes, and community.
Read MoreThis month, we are featuring the work of Sarah Fathallah, a designer, researcher, and educator who specializes in applying design to the social sector, with impact-driven clients like the International Rescue Committee and Open Society Foundations, to name a few. Sarah also co-founded Design Gigs for Good, a free community-driven resource to help more people use the tools of design to create positive social change.
You can connect with Sarah Fathallah directly at: https://sarahfathallah.com
If you are a DJN member doing interesting work, and would like to be featured in a future newsletter or blog post, please email us at designjusticenetwork@gmail.com.
Read MoreThis month, we are featuring the work of Dr. Pierce Gordon, an interdisciplinary researcher, facilitator, evaluator, and change catalyst impassioned by the intersection between transformation and liberation. His research and consultation work has tracked and supported design+international development's spread, complexity, and emergence: by developing reviews of human-centered design for international development, by conducting ethnographic analyses and facilitation projects in the Botswana innovation ecosystem, and by developing mixed-methods analyses of educational design spaces like OpenIDEO and UC Berkeley's DevENG Minor that unpack the efficacy of their platforms….
You can connect with Pierce Gordon directly at: piercegordon1.medium.com/about
Below is one article (of many), featuring Peirce’s work: A Hundred Racist Designs, and as well, a Podcast (Oct. 22, 2020): Racist designs, Design Justice and Mycelium.
If you are a DJN member doing interesting work, and would like to be featured in a future newsletter or blog post, please email us at designjusticenetwork@gmail.com.
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