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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
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03 · Background
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need is a 2020 MIT Press monograph by Sasha Costanza-Chock, published in March 2020 and named a 2021 PROSE Award finalist in Engineering & Technology. It is the book-length formalisation of design justice as both "a community of practice, and a framework for analysis" — the named self-description Costanza-Chock has carried across subsequent talks, interviews, and academic work — and the load-bearing public-output anchor of the Design Justice Network's organising. The book is available in print from MIT Press under ISBN 9780262043458 and as an open-access reading edition on MIT Press's PubPub platform, the working reference text the book is most often cited from in subsequent academic and movement use; on Costanza-Chock's own published account, it has been cited more than 3,000 times.
The book's central move is to apply Patricia Hill Collins's framework of the "matrix of domination" — structured by white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, and settler colonialism — to the analysis of how design distributes benefits and burdens between groups of people. The opening chapter's named case is the airport millimeter-wave scanner's binary-gender classification of nonbinary bodies, used as the load-bearing illustration of how seemingly neutral technical systems encode the assumptions of dominant social categories into the bodies they recognise. From that case the book develops its working argument in three named registers: that design reflects existing power structures through biases encoded in software, medical devices, social media, and security infrastructure; that workforce-diversity alone — the dominant industry framing of "fairness in AI" or "diverse teams" — is necessary but not sufficient, since even diverse teams routinely build products for affluent users with constant connectivity, with community-led design (not representative design) the corrective; and that innovation is collective rather than solitary, with marginalised communities constantly producing design work that the dominant industry-genius narrative renders invisible and unrecompensed.
The book formalises in print the ten principles drafted, finalised, and released under Creative Commons across five years of Allied Media Conference convenings — the 2014 Future Design Lab launch, the 21 June 2015 "Generating Shared Principles for Design Justice" session at AMC Detroit (thirty designers, artists, technologists, and community organizers), the 2016 Network-establishing AMC gathering, and the 2018 finalisation at the AMC Design Justice Track. The named vocabulary the book carries — "Nothing About Us Without Us" as the disability-rights inheritance Principle 3 carries forward; "design for one, design for many"; "we recognise that we are not always the right people to design"; the explicit contrast between design justice and "design for social impact" — has been adopted across the participatory-design field, the algorithmic-accountability research community, and the wider AI-and-society discourse.
Within the corpus, Design Justice is the published-framework anchor of the framework-author Voice register that Costanza-Chock's Voice entry installs — the named analytical vocabulary that the corpus's other Voices' campaigns draw on as their working theoretical apparatus. The book sits at the publication-side base of three named programme arcs already recorded in the corpus: the Algorithmic Justice League's Community Reporting of Algorithmic System Harms (CRASH) project, of which Costanza-Chock has been Director of Research and Design and which is the working operationalisation of the design-justice "community of practice" half into a participatory-audit programme for algorithmic systems; the Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies workshop methodology, co-conceived by Costanza-Chock with Joana Varon in partnership with the Design Justice Network; and the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition / Allied Media Projects base from which the Design Justice Network's Allied-Media-Conference origin track was assembled. As a make-AI-good-movement artefact, the book stands alongside Gender Shades (2018) and Stochastic Parrots (2021) as one of the corpus's three foundational publication-side anchors of the algorithmic-accountability axis — the framework text whose vocabulary the campaign-and-organising work that follows draws on as its theoretical apparatus.
04 · Sources
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mitpress.mit.edu
Checked 2026-05-18MIT Press's own page for *Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need* — primary source for the full title and subtitle, the publication month (March 2020), the hardcover ISBN 9780262043458, the framing of design justice as both "a community of practice" and "a framework for analysis", the book's anchoring in "the matrix of domination of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, settler colonialism and other forms of structural inequality", and the "Nothing About Us Without Us" disability-rights inheritance the book carries forward
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designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu
Checked 2026-05-18MIT Press / PubPub open-access companion edition of *Design Justice* — primary source for the book's open-access reading text, the table of contents (Introduction; six chapters; Directions for Future Work; appendices), and the working reference text the book is most often cited from in subsequent academic and movement use
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news.mit.edu
Checked 2026-05-18MIT News (4 March 2020) launch coverage of *Design Justice* by Suzanne Day — primary source for Costanza-Chock's application of Patricia Hill Collins's "matrix of domination" framework to design, the book's central arguments that design reflects existing power structures and that workforce-diversity alone is necessary but not sufficient, the named airport millimeter-wave-scanner opening case, and the named quotation "Design justice is both a community of practice, and a framework for analysis"
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designjustice.org
Checked 2026-05-18Design Justice Network's own history page — primary source for the 2014 Future Design Lab origin at the Allied Media Conference, the 21 June 2015 "Generating Shared Principles for Design Justice" session at AMC Detroit (thirty designers, artists, technologists, and community organizers), the 2016 Network-establishing AMC gathering, the 2018 finalization of the principles under Creative Commons release at the AMC Design Justice Track, and the Network's published ten principles the book formalises in print
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designjustice.org
Checked 2026-05-18Design Justice Network principles page — primary source for the ten principles in their canonical Creative Commons-released form, including Principle 3 "We prioritize design's impact on the community over the intentions of the designer", the "Nothing About Us Without Us" carrying-forward, and Allied Media Projects's role as the Network's institutional sponsor
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en.wikipedia.org
Checked 2026-05-18Wikipedia entry on Costanza-Chock — independent secondary source for the book's 2021 PROSE Award finalist designation in Engineering & Technology, the listing of *Design Justice* (MIT Press 2020) and the earlier *Out of the Shadows, into the Streets!* (MIT Press 2014) as Costanza-Chock's two named MIT Press monographs, and the framing of the design-justice work as the load-bearing public output of Costanza-Chock's research and advocacy programme
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newbooksnetwork.com
Checked 2026-05-18New Books Network episode page for *Design Justice* — the most-cited single podcast venue on the book and on Costanza-Chock's framing of design justice; secondary source for the book's wider movement-and-academic circulation
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just-tech.ssrc.org
Checked 2026-05-18Social Science Research Council Just Tech profile of Costanza-Chock — primary source for Costanza-Chock's own report that the book has been cited more than 3,000 times, and for the named subsequent academic-publication record (*#MoreThanCode* 2018; *Who Audits the Auditors?* 2022) that extends the design-justice analytical apparatus into the public-interest-technology and algorithmic-auditing registers
Source: entities/publications/pub-design-justice.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.