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. It will appeal to students in the field of Technical and Professional Communication and more.
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.
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 Universitys 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 Womans 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
Jialei Jiang is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Composition in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Jason C. K. Tham is Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric and Assistant Chair of the English Department at Texas Tech University, USA. His recent works include UX Writing (Routledge, 2023), Designing Technical and Professional Communication (Routledge, 2021), and Design Thinking in Technical Communication (Routledge, 2021).
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