The DJN Newsletter curates design justice updates, opportunities, events and resources on a mostly monthly basis. Subscribe to receive the newsletter via email.
Read MoreThe DJN Newsletter curates design justice updates, opportunities, events and resources on a mostly monthly basis. Subscribe to receive the newsletter via email.
Read MoreWe welcome Joy Chan and Corina Fadel as they join Denise Shanté Brown in designing and dreaming liberatory cultures of care with Design Justice Network members.
Read MoreMissed the latest Welcome Session? January’s virtual welcome session is now uploaded. Watch to learn more about DJN and benefits of Network membership!
Read MoreThe DJN Newsletter curates design justice updates, opportunities, events and resources on a mostly monthly basis. Subscribe to receive the newsletter via email.
Read MoreIn the DJN, our roots include a commitment to care, disability justice, and healing justice, stemming from our origins in the Allied Media Projects Network; these frameworks have informed us since our beginnings. As builders and experimenters, the Care Pod Collaborators will be integral in collaboratively dreaming and designing liberatory cultures of care with design justice practitioners.
Read MoreThe Design Justice Network newsletter is curated on a (mostly) monthly basis. Subscribe to receive it directly in your inbox!
Read MoreMissed the latest Welcome Session? December's virtual meetup is now uploaded. Watch to learn more about DJN and benefits of Network membership!
Read MoreThis month we are featuring member Susana Beltrán-Grimm. Susana Beltrán-Grimm is a postdoctoral research associate in the Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. Susana holds an Ed.D. in education and learning technologies from Pepperdine University. Her program of research and practice includes the study of community-based research through participatory methods like co-design approaches to produce equitable learning environments for Latine families and children.
Read MoreThe Design Justice Network newsletter is curated on a (mostly) monthly basis. Subscribe to receive it directly in your inbox!
Read MoreMissed the latest Welcome Session? November's virtual meetup is now uploaded. Watch to learn more about DJN and benefits of Network membership!
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
Staff and the Steering Committee return from their seasonal pause prepared to support an abundance of activity and growth for the Design Justice Network. New Nodes across the world are taking their first steps in meeting and organizing around the Design Justice Principles, established Nodes and Working Groups meet regularly for discussion and direct action – and new signatories and members continue to join the movement as our impact expands.
Are you one of our new readers joining us this past month? Check the next section for Upcoming Events that may be near you or available virtually. Updates for DJN facilitators, Nodes and Working Group organizers follow that, offering great insight into how our community shares work and advances the mission of design justice in action. We also include articles, videos and other happenings from the wider world of design justice in What We’re Sharing…
Read MoreThe Design Justice Network has been growing and shifting in so many amazing ways! One important part of how we do that is gathering and actioning feedback from our DJN members and folx in our Nodes and Working Groups!
This past weekend, node and working groups members participated in ongoing "Shape your node and working group experience" sessions to gather ideas, feedback and dreams in order to ensure their voices are centered in the Node and Working Group experience of the network, all rooted in a sense of abundance, possibility, and joy!
Read MoreI’m so grateful and excited to introduce myself, Rene Joy, to the Design Justice Network as the newest member to join Taylor Simone and Victoria Barnett as DJN staff.
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
As we move into our seasonal pause we are wishing you all moments of deep care, warmth, and protection. These pauses are always a moment for staff and the steering committee to ground ourselves and practices in care. Over the last year we have had four Care Circles events for the network. To keep that energy going, leave you with these questions. What does care look like for you at this moment? How can you move with an understanding of the care circle in daily practice? The care circle is a space to slow down and practice more life-giving ways of doing design justice work. So how can we integrate those small moments like that into our work? You can read more about the Care Circle here.
Our official dates of pause are August 27th - September 11th.
Taylor Simone (She/Her), Special Projects Manager and Victoria Barnett (She/Her), International Network Manager, Nodes & WG, Design Justice Network, and the DJN Communications team!
Read MoreAugust 27- September 11, 2022, our Steering Committee team and staff will begin the second (and third) of our 2022 DJN network seasonal pauses. We had intended to make these quarterly and realized we were a bit late this year. Also with a new Steering Committee team, we’re reflecting on our ideas of a Pause- and recognizing international differences, by ending the summer term with a two-week pause for our staff, and an August-long pause for our Steering Committee members.
Read MoreDear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,
This past winter we celebrated the launch of the Design Justice Network's Mission and Vision, as well as the Intentions of the Staff and Steering Committee (M/V/I). The energy cultivated from that experience continues to ground us. Cultivating a deeply interconnected network, advancing and embodying the DJN principles in practice, and amplifying experiences of joy throughout the network are our driving forces, as we move into a new season.
This past year we brought on new Steering Committee members Nour Arafat, Boaz Sender, Elena Silvestrini, and Marta Delatte (to learn more about them please click here). Currently, the DJN Steering Committee is an all-volunteer body that sets high-level strategy, determines the overall network structure, approves the budget, maintains information about the DJN’s structure, and reviews and approves new Local Nodes and Working Groups…. continue reading
Read MoreThis past year we brought on new Steering Committee members Nour Arafat, Boaz Sender, Elena Silvestrini, and Marta Delatte (to learn more about them please click here). Currently, the DJN Steering Committee is an all-volunteer body that sets high-level strategy, determines the overall network structure, approves the budget, maintains information about the DJN’s structure, and reviews and approves new Local Nodes and Working Groups.
On April 29th and May 11th, 2022, we had the most recent DJN SC retreat, including the new SC members and staff. This took place virtually over two sessions. Our goal here is to give you a sense of what happened and share some of our key takeaways and next moves.
Read MoreThis month we are featuring member Mina Kouvara. Mina is currently a Junior Research Fellow at the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, where she is also pursuing a PhD as a core member of the 'Cosmolocalism' research group. Her thesis explores sustainability in the context of an alternative mode of production and technology development based on the commons. She focuses on vernacular, grassroots and non-western perspectives. Mina’s background is in architecture, and she holds a MSc in Environment and Development of Mountain Regions from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She is a founding and former core member of an NGO which conducts research on traditional building techniques, and the co-creator of the art initiative 'Quokka'. Mina is affiliated with the research collective P2P Lab.
Read MoreStaff Restructuring: A formal restructuring of staff positions began shortly before our retreat. We created a staff proposal and this proposal was supported and taken through rounds of refinement with Victoria and the SC. Here are some of the things that the proposal aimed to do:
Capture a true scope of our work through formatting: How do emergent needs impact our weekly goals, work expectations, and our ability to work to sustain systems of support for the network?
Address our lack of capacity to go in-depth with initiatives that support nodes, working groups, and members. How does the generalization of our roles impact our ability to engage?
Create a clearer understanding of staff in relation to Steering Committee Support.