Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds we need

Costanza-Chock shifts attention from inclusive outputs to the political economy of design itself. Drawing on intersectional feminism and community-based practice, the book asks who participates, who benefits, who is harmed and who receives recognition. Its central EDI contribution is a set of design justice principles that prioritise communities most affected by structural inequality and value existing community knowledge. This is important because participatory methods can remain extractive when institutions retain control over agendas, resources and authorship. The book expands design knowledge beyond accommodation by addressing race, gender, class, disability and migration as interconnected structures rather than separate user attributes. For EDIDesk, it offers a strong conceptual and practical basis for assessing power, accountability and redistribution throughout a project—not only the accessibility of the final result.