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Glossary

discriminatory design

Pronunciation

Type/Context

Ideology / Approach

Short Definition

Design practices that normalize racial hierarchies and use statistical norms within sociotechnical systems

Relevance

Design choices often perpetuate systemic discrimination, affecting accessibility, representation, and user experience. The unresolved question is how to fundamentally change design processes to prioritize equity without replicating the biases of designers, and whether existing structures can truly support that.

Additional Notes

Further Reading

Benjamin, R. (2016). Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 145–156. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2016.70 Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation? In S. Costanza-Chock, Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds we need. The MIT Press. https://designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/3h2zq86d/release/1

American Sign Language (ASL)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Black Sign Variation (BSV)

CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens)

CART Captioning

CMS (Content Management System)

Creative Commons

Crip Technoscience

Disability Justice (DJ)

Dish With One Spoon

Dish With One Spoon Territory

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Do-It-Together (DIT)

Etuaptmumk / Two-Eyed Seeing

Inclusive Design

Indigenous accessibility

Indigenous cosmology

Indigenous data

Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS)

Indigenous futurism

Indigenous protocols

Indigenous science

Internet speed test

IoT (Internet of Things)

Oglála Lakȟóta

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Pedagogy of Peace

Transformative Justice (TJ)

Waqmitkuk (Wagmatcook)

active listening

algorithmic bias

anti-black sanism

anti-oppression

audio description

augmented reality (AR)

change management

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