Design Justice Scoping Review

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Written By Aishani Chatterjee

Objective: To understand the current and past practices that strive towards more just designs within mechanical engineering and how to improve on these methods.

Key findings:

  • Scholars organized themes of justice and design in ways that we categorized into three main areas of design: Designers, Design Outcomes, and DesignProcess

  • We observed a sentiment across many papers to redefine the field of design in pursuit of justice

Relevant Paper: Syal, S. M., and Kramer, J. 2024, “Design and Justice: A Scoping Review in Engineering Design,” Journal of Mechanical Design. [link]

Lead Researchers: Sita Syal and Julia Kramer
Acknowledgements: Deepansha Singh, Lauren Wojciechowski, Uthman Olagoke, McKenna Owens, Aarohi Doshi, Saumya Sharma
Funding: University of Michigan Integrated Systems and Design department

Aishani Chatterjee
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Design Justice Practices within Mechanical Engineering