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Design Justice Principles.
| 1. We use design to sustain, heal, empower our communities, and seek liberation from exploitative and oppressive systems. |
| 2. We center the voices of those directly impacted by the outcomes of the design process. |
| 3. We prioritize design’s impact on the community over the designer’s intentions. |
| 4. We view change as emergent from an accountable, accessible, and collaborative process rather than as a point at the end of a process. |
| 5. We see the role of the designer as a facilitator rather than an expert. |
| 6. We believe that everyone is an expert based on their own lived experience, and we all have unique and brilliant contributions to bring to a design process. |
| 7. We share design knowledge and tools with our communities. |
| 8. We work towards sustainable, community-led and -controlled outcomes. |
| 9. We work towards non-exploitative solutions that reconnect us to the earth and each other. |
| 10. Before seeking new design solutions, we look for what already works at the community level. We honor and uplift traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge and practices. |
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Steps of the Co-Design Process: Design Activities in each Step, Design Justice Principle informing each Step, Evidence that Principle(s) was Practiced, and Outputs of Steps. From a Design Process to Co-Design a more Equitable Prototype Assessment System in Pediatrics. 2024.