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Author:   Alison Place
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780262553018

ISBN 10:   0262553015
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 September 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1: POWER On power by Alison Place On calling yourself a designer Essay by Claudia Marina On smuggling feminism into design institutions Dialogue with Griselda Flesler On the contradictions of feminist branding Essay by Aggie Toppins On fighting the typatriarchy Dialogue with Aasawari Kulkarni 50 questions for every designer Essay by Jennifer Armbrust CHAPTER 2: KNOWLEDGE On knowledge by Alison Place On feminist design that is beyond W.E.I.R.D. Essay by Maryam Mustafa On mother-centered design Case study by Elizabeth Pérez On critical frameworks for disability design Dialogue with Aimi Hamraie On female entrepreneurship and visual storytelling Case study and visual essay by Gaby Hernández On feminist technology for housing justice Case study by Ashley K. Eberhart, Elizabeth Byrd, Madeline Avram Blount, Manon Vergerio, Velvet A. Johnson Ross CHAPTER 3: CARE On care by Alison Place On intergenerational maternal healing Dialogue with Eden Laurin and Ellen Kellogg On designing with authenticity over perfection Case study by Rebecca Tegtmeyer On embodying vulnerability through design Case study by Jeff Kasper On trauma informed design Dialogue with Rachael Dietkus On the self-optimization of care Case study by Laura Devendorf On health and healing in marginalized communities Case study by Attia Taylor On counter-mapping and co-designing with more-than-humans Case study Alexandra Crosby and Ilaria Vanni CHAPTER 4: PLURALITY On plurality by Alison Place On design pedagogy and empty pluralism Essay by Becky Nasadowski On challenging power through visual form Dialogue with Benedetta Crippa On centering trans voices in design Case study by Cami Rincón and Andrew Mallinson On feminine exhibition design Essay by Margaret Middleton On matriarchal design education Dialogue with Ayako Takase and Heather Snyder Quinn On design histories woven in patriarchy Essay by Dina Benbrahim CHAPTER 5: LIBERATION On liberation by Alison Place On creating spaces for Black women to heal, dream and innovate Dialogue with Jenn Roberts On feminist hackathons Case study by Alexis Hope On envisioning alternative transfeminist futures Case study by Joana Varon On staying with the trouble of future technologies Essay by Marie Louis Juul Søndergaard On building consentful technology Case study by Una Lee CHAPTER 6: COMMUNITY On community by Alison Place On community as a process of working towards Dialogue with Sarah Williams and Mandy Harris Williams On making code accessible and inclusive Case study by Lauren Lee McCarthy On building a flexible and borderless feminist community Case study by In-ah Shin On being a male feminist designer: a path of understanding Essay by Victor G. Martinez On the futures(s) of feminist design Dialogue with Maya Ober and Nina Paim Recommended Readings Acknowledgements References Index

Reviews

Included in Fast Company's ""5 essential design books to read this fall"" ""What is the relationship between feminist theory and design practice? This is the question that frames the essays, conversations, and case studies that designer and educator Alison Place has put together here. Moving beyond narrow questions of representation and inclusion, Feminist Designer instead asks how we design and why. In a work of theory that is also accessible, Place and her contributors make the case that feminist theory—and feminism more generally—provides an opportunity to interrogate the role of power, knowledge, care, community, and more in the designed systems and artifacts that surround us."" —Fast Company ""The book looks at all these mediations through a feminist lens, asking that designers, and anyone engaged with design (which is all of us) be alert to the implicit bias in our designed world, and its entanglement in power structures and oppressive systems. The book, which includes work from 43 contributors across 16 countries, answers how to make design socially beneficial, looking at graphic, interior, exhibition, AI, product, disability, and design education, demanding an examination of the ways designed objects and systems reinforce or undermine oppression. The book is divided into six thematic chapters: power, knowledge, care, plurality, liberation, and community."" —The Boston Globe “This book will be an invaluable resource for design educators and practitioners, challenging what we thought we knew while opening new possibilities for being and designing” —Metropolis

"Included in Fast Company's ""5 essential design books to read this fall"" ""What is the relationship between feminist theory and design practice? This is the question that frames the essays, conversations, and case studies that designer and educator Alison Place has put together here. Moving beyond narrow questions of representation and inclusion, Feminist Designer instead asks how we design and why. In a work of theory that is also accessible, Place and her contributors make the case that feminist theory--and feminism more generally--provides an opportunity to interrogate the role of power, knowledge, care, community, and more in the designed systems and artifacts that surround us."" --Fast Company ""The book looks at all these mediations through a feminist lens, asking that designers, and anyone engaged with design (which is all of us) be alert to the implicit bias in our designed world, and its entanglement in power structures and oppressive systems. The book, which includes work from 43 contributors across 16 countries, answers how to make design socially beneficial, looking at graphic, interior, exhibition, AI, product, disability, and design education, demanding an examination of the ways designed objects and systems reinforce or undermine oppression. The book is divided into six thematic chapters: power, knowledge, care, plurality, liberation, and community."" --The Boston Globe ""This book will be an invaluable resource for design educators and practitioners, challenging what we thought we knew while opening new possibilities for being and designing"" --Metropolis"

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Alison Place is a designer, educator, and researcher who practices feminism through design. She is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas.

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