Introduction
The Community-led design wiki, curated by Beyond Sticky Notes, collates insights and resources around community-led or community-driven design. It privileges the contributions of community-based practitioners, Indigenous people, people of color, disabled people and queer folx. Despite doing the work for many years, these voices have been undervalued in mainstream design education and practice with great detriment to our collective knowledge. Wiki readers can decide what they find helpful.
You can contribute to the Community-led design wiki. If you’re unsure about a contribution consider running it through the Design Justice Principles as a values check.
Please note: the Commons Librarians have created this article to mirror the wiki to increase access to these tools and links. The content of this article is current in April 2021 so directly visit the Community-led design wiki for updates.
Movements and Networks
- Design Justice Network
- Decolonising Design
- Black Space
- Depatriarchise design
- Equity Design Collaborative
- Open Design Now
- Black Womxn Flourish
- Disability Visibility Project
- Design as Protest
- Liberatory Design
Tools
- A Designer’s Critical Alphabet by Lesley Ann Noel
- Equity-Centered Community Design by Creative Reaction Lab
- Why Am I Always Being Researched? A guidebook for community organizations, researchers, and funders to help us get from insufficient understanding to more authentic truth by Chicago Beyond
- An introduction to co-design principles and practice by Auckland Co-design Lab
- Capability+Workshop+Booklet+A3.pdf
- Ethical questions for design work by Auckland Co-design Lab
- Ethical+questions+for+design.pdf
- Praxis framework – design and evaluation for social impact by Geoff Stone (Ripple Research) and Auckland Co-design Lab
- Praxis_petal+Diagram.pdf
- The Oracle of Transfeminist Technologies card deck
- Guidebook to shift unequal power dynamics in participatory design practice by Hajira Qazi
- The Power Manual by Cyndi Suarez
- A social designer’s field guide to power literacy by Maya Goodwill in collaboration with Kennisland
- The Network Weaving Handbook by June Holley
- Healing Centered Engagement
- Participant Wellbeing Pack by Bright Harbour Collective, And Good, and Mary Coyne
- An Incomplete List of Resources for the Equity-Centered Designer by Isabelle Yisak
- The Black School’s Process Deck, contributed by @jyjster
- The Workers Tarot Deck by Parsons DESIS Lab at The New School
- Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
- Racial DeckEquity Cardset by Alvin Schexnider
Podcasts and videos
- Kataraina Davis ‘Designing with Māori knowledge’
- Dr. Dori Tunstall on Respectful Design: Models for Diversity, Inclusion, & Decolonization
- OF/BY/FOR ALL: Keynote by Nina Simon at the 2019 National Trust Convestival
- Trauma-informed design with Rachael Dietkus and Sarah Fathallah
- Mapping and Amplifying Decolonised Design Futures by Tristan Schultz
- Decentering whiteness in design with Lesley-Ann Noel, Sadie Red Wing and Jennifer Rittner
- Co-design and power with Dana Shen
- Design is Human with Dr. Pierce Cornelius Otlhogile-Gordon
- Community Building as Design Practice with Sloan Leo
- Four critiques of design by Sarah Fathallah
Newsletters
- Design With by Tyler Gindraux
- Community-led design monthly summaries by Flox Studio
- Communal care and joy by Annika Hansteen-Izora
Writing
- Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Designing Futures with Care: Finding Our Way to Different Worlds Together by Tara Campbell and Ariana Lutterman
- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Scaling Down: Why Designers Need to Reverse Their Thinking by Jeremy Myerson
- Changing the conversation around race, equity and bias in design by Lesley-Ann Noel
- What are we learning? Place-based and community-led design by The Southern Initiative
- How to Redesign for Justice by Antionette Carroll
- Bringing Everything I Am Into One Place by The Lankellychase Foundation (thanks Morgan)
- Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
- 10 new rules of design curated by Mark Wilson
- Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta
- Research justice : methodologies for social change by Andrew J. Jolivétte
- The Careless Society by John McKnight
- Every Space is Political with Sarah Fathallah
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice ****by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- All that you touch, you change by Berry Street’s Y-Change Crew and Morgan Cataldo
- When love meets power by Charlie Leadbeater and TACSI
- Desna Whaanga-Schollum interview with Angie Tangaere
- Field Guide 2020: Designing Māori Futures – Systems Disruption
- Design has an empathy problem, white men can’t design for everyone by Jesse Weaver
- Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
- Designing Publics by Christopher A. Le Dantec
- The Relationship is the Project edited by Jade Lillie, with Kate Larsen, Cara Kirkwood and Jax Jacki Brown
- To improve our ability to nurture the participation, knowledge and potential of vulnerable young people – Churchill Scholarship report by Lauren Oliver (thanks Morgan)
- The value of lived experience in social change: The need for leadership and organisational development in the social sector by Baljeet Sandhu (thanks Morgan)
- Respecting our Relations: Dori Tunstall on Decolonizing Design
- What’s The Path What’s The Path To Durable Social & Organizational Change? Community Design For All. Sloan Leo and Dr Christina Harrington.
- From the technical to the political: democratizing design thinking by Brooke Staton, Julia Kramer, Pierce Cornelius Otlhogile-Gordon and Lauren Valdez
- Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong
- Theory as Liberatory Practice by bell hooks
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes (thanks Hildreth)
- Ideas Arrangements Effects by DS4SI (thanks Hildreth)
- Decolonizing Whatever-Centred Design by Frederick van Amstel
- No more throwaway people: The Co-production Imperative by Edgar S. Cahn
- Co-design in Aotearoa New Zealand: a snapshot of the literature
Language
- Design for Equity Glossary by Enterprise Community Partners (site no longer exists – link is to the archived version. Apr 2022)
- Charles Vogl in the Art of Community describes a community as “a group of people who share mutual concern for one another’s welfare.”
