Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects.
With this simple premise, DS4SI’s radically accessible systems design book makes a compelling case for arrangements as a rich and overlooked terrain for social justice and world building. Unpacking how ideas like racism and sexism remain sturdy by embedding themselves in everything from physical and social infrastructure to everyday speech and thought habits, this book gives readers the tools to sense, intervene in and imagine new arrangements. Using diverse examples from their work and others, DS4SI offers readers a roadmap for using social interventions to invite the larger public into imagining and creating a more just and vibrant world.
You can buy Ideas—Arrangements—Effects HERE.
LISTEN to our discussion about Ideas, Arrangements and Effects with award-winning children’s book author Jason Reynolds. This was part of the NEA’s Social Justice Series Camp 2020.
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