Design Justice North

Part of the international Design Justice Network, this group meets regularly to put one principle into practice: design — digital and physical, along with the systems and data behind it — should be done with the people it affects, not for or to them.

Sessions have ranged from trauma-informed design and radical participatory practice to unpacking coloniality in design and questioning who really gets to own land, data and lived experience.

Members come from design, research, policy and community backgrounds across the UK and beyond, drawn together by a shared interest in shifting power away from extraction and towards equity, exchange and genuine community control.

Design Justice North is hosted by Open Data Manchester, and is co-ordinated by Julian Tait and Toyebat Adewale.

You can find details of upcoming events here.