Full Description
Exploring the intersection of design research and community engagement, this book highlights the ways in which design and design theories can be used to address social justice issues and promote positive change in communities.
Contributors illuminate the theoretical, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions of design-driven methods in community-engaged projects, exploring their potential to address critical social justice issues such as ethnic and racial justice, gender equality, disability justice, cultural diversity, equity, and environmental justice. Chapters examine various aspects of community-engaged practices, including the use of design theories to fuel social justice work in community partnerships, ethical issues surrounding the use of multimodal resources and new media technologies, and pedagogies for promoting social change. Addressing the opportunities and challenges of design and design methods in community engagement, this collection offers suggestions for promoting social justice through technical and professional communication activities and pedagogies.
Investigating the design of community-engaged projects from a critical standpoint, this book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Technical and Professional Communication, Writing and Composition Studies, and Rhetoric. It will also be of interest to administrators, community partners, and professionals working in service-learning contexts.
Contents
Editors' Introduction: Social Justice and Multimodal Design in Ethical Community Engagement Part I Theories and Ethics in Designing for Social Justice 1. Community-Led Design: Building Frameworks for Equity and Justice 2. Deploying Design Justice in Environmental Injustice Settings 3. Trust, Understand, Act: Using Visual Place-Based Research Methods to More Deeply Understand Community Perspectives 4. Eating to Heal: Using Design Thinking to Reconceptualize a Community-Engaged Project for Health Justice 5. Designing Ethical Constraints to Enable Flourishing in an Online Community 6. Incorporating Community Knowledge in Design: A Reflective Account of Designing Technology with Justice Part II Community-Engaged Design Efforts in Action 7. Beyond "Maintaining Status": A Call for Distributed Responsibility in the Professionalization of International Graduate Scholars 8. What We Came Here For: Students Learning Local Civil Rights Rhetorics as Part of Kennesaw State University's Primary Source Initiative, the #ATLStudentMovement Project 9. "Nothing about Us without Us": Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) and the Challenge of Designing Activism for People with ME and Long Covid 10. Resisting the Datafication of Injustice Through Collaborative Design and Translation in a Local Museum Exhibit 11. Revitalizing Endangered Languages Through Community-Led Design: The Wikitongues Approach to Preserving Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Heritage 12. Contemporary Chinese Grassroots Activism for Social Justice: The Chained Woman's Case Part III Pedagogical Exemplars of Multimodal Design for Social Justice 13. A Kairotic Approach to Teaching Online Asynchronous Community-Engaged Technical Communication Courses 14. Designing with Care: A Cultural Rhetorics Praxis of Care for Digital Storytelling Projects About Reproductive Justice 15. A Pedagogy of Ethical Engagement: Preparing Students for Technical Communication in Communities 16. Inviting Disability into the TPC Classroom Through Service Learning 17. Pedagogical Approaches to Normalize Inclusive Design Editors' Outro: Opportunities and Challenges of Multimodal Community Engagement for Social Justice Appendix: Sample Course Syllabus
