Designing with an Equity & Justice Lens
summary
Design produces what it was built to produce and therefore can be redesigned; Creative Reaction Lab, born two weeks after Ferguson in 2014, trains Black and Latinx youth with an equity-centered community design method, runs monthly webinars and an open‑source field guide, and funds COVID micro‑interventions and a nine‑month apprenticeship that produced “blessed and highly flavored” food boxes. The Design Census with AIGA/Google finds 3% Black, 8% Latinx, 0.2% Native representation. Budgets include a living expert stipend and participants receive paid roles and mental‑health support.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction to Antoinette Carroll
- 1:07Speaker's personal journey and mission
- 2:34Video: Design, confidence and systemic change
- 10:18Growing up in under-invested communities
- 14:33Career pivot to purpose-driven design
- 19:56Moving beyond diversity to equity
- 21:19Founding Creative Reaction Lab
- 25:13Design as intent and unintentional impact
- 28:06Redesigning systems for equity
- 33:26Equity designers vs design allies
- 37:02Equity manifesto in action
- 39:11Actionable steps for redesigners
- 42:44Q&A: Bringing up equity with white managers
- 46:20Q&A: Frameworks for impactful action
- 48:54Q&A: Staying vs leaving problematic orgs
- 51:46Q&A: Redistribution in design briefs
- 55:21Closing remarks and conference wrap-up
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