Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Design

Overview

In this online certificate program, you explore ways to promote equity and oppose injustice in your design systems and processes. You develop an in-depth understanding of the dimensions of social justice in personal and professional life. You leave the course with a set of practical tools with which to advance equity, inclusion, and social justice in your design projects and pursuits.

What You’ll Gain

• Practical tools for building and sharing knowledge about equity, inclusion, and social justice activism
• Equity, inclusion, and social justice training and tools to use in design and design education professional contexts
• An understanding of how design is implicated in global inequality and how the emerging field of design justice can address systems and cultures of oppression
• The ability to critically analyze and evaluate social justice and community engagement designs and practices

• An understanding of your own power to promote equity, inclusion, and justice in the art and design fields

Why The New School?

The professional landscape as we’ve known it has changed dramatically, and ongoing learning is more important now than ever before. At The New School, we champion every student’s creativity and growth. By combining integrated disciplines with collaborative problem solving, we deliver an immersive, transformative learning experience. With the leadership of Parsons School of Design — ranked #1 in the United States* — our faculty imparts the critical expertise students need to advance their careers or pivot to new ones in a constantly evolving world.

*Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (2022).