Event
Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock on Design Justice
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 19:00to20:30
(Virtual/ Online Event with Captions)
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Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
In this talk, Dr. Costanza-Chock presents an overview of their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, published by the MIT Press in 2020. The book is an exploration of how we might re-imagine design to be led by marginalized communities as a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, and support ecological survival. More information about the book can be found at . In a book talk, Dr. Costanza-Chock presents an overview of key themes, concepts, and excerpts from the text with the aid of projected slides for 30-45 minutes, followed by a discussion with the audience of 15-30 minutes.
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, move towards collective liberation, and advance ecological survival. They are known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a joint appointment in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the Department of Urban Studies+Planning. They are a Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League () and a Faculty Affiliate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Sasha is a board member of Allied Media Projects () and a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network (). Sasha is the author of two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other research publications. Their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, was published by the MIT Press in 2020.
This event is part of the 2nd Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (), organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. This series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research), the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Algorithmic Media Observatory, MILA, Cinema Politics, ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s Department of History and Classical Studies, Black Feminist Futures Working Group, the Sustainability Projects Fund, Moving Image Research Laboratory, The ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Writing Centre, MUTEK IMG, the Intersectionality Research Hub, and Machine Agencies.
There is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide captions. The event will be recorded and the video will be made available on our website within a few days of the event.