Discover design strategies for using your own unique social identities
and experiences as inspiration to challenge the status quo and create
the kind of lasting change that leads to greater equity and social
justice, from Stanford University's d.school.
Who are you? What motivates you as a changemaker? What forces are
preventing you (and others) from thriving? These questions are essential
to the work of creating social change, and they are exactly what Design
Social Change asks you to explore.
Designer and design educator Lesley-Ann Noel shares the essential design
strategies for making a lasting impact. This work starts with knowing
yourself and builds outward into making change in your community and the
larger world. Design Social Change gives you tools to tailor your
approach to design, taking into account your history, personality,
ethics, and goals for a better future.
The strategies for change are based on equity and fairness,
understanding your own role in these systems of both justice and
inequity. These strategies demonstrate how to use anger, joy, and
empathy as inspiration for understanding what people need to thrive.
Using the tools of design, these new approaches will help you craft
projects that are relevant to you and create more just, equitable
futures. The time is always right to work toward a fair and just
society.
