Summary of Constanza-Chock’s chapter “Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation?” (2020)

This summary explores Chapter 1 of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Constanza-Chock, 2020), a book that examines how design can be reoriented to be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequalities, and contribute to collective liberation and ecological survival. Chapter 1 addresses the first of these questions: “What values do we encode and reproduce in the objects and systems that we design?”