Audrey Bennett, Ron Eglash Co-Edit New Design Ideas Journal

Stamps Professors Audrey Bennett and Ron Eglash co-edited a special issue of New Design Ideas, Vol. 5, No. 1, offering a focus on Generative Justice in Design.

The issue features writings by Audrey Bennett, Ron Eglash, Keesa V. Johnson (MDes ​’21), and other scholars on the role design in creating and sustaining Generative Justice within communities. 

In a 2021 interview with Michigan News, Eglash discussed the exploration of Generative Justice: 

“While the idea of a cir­cu­lar econ­omy is com­mon for envi­ron­men­tal value, there is often lit­tle atten­tion paid to labor and social value,” said Eglash, who is a pro­fes­sor at Stamps and the U‑M School of Infor­ma­tion. ​“The goal […] is to explore what it might mean to allow all of those ele­ments to cycle value back to the grass­roots cre­atives, whether those are peo­ple, plants or other agents of generativity.” 

New Design Ideas | Special Issue of Generative Justice in Design