JusticexDesign classroom tools

People, Systems, Power, Participation is a protocol for looking critically at content and developing a sensitivity to the role(s) of power and participation in the design of objects and systems.

Messages, Choices, Impacts (Or Messages, Choices, Shifts) is a Thinking Routine for supporting learners to develop a critical sensitivity to design and to reflect on how design choices in content, objects, and systems impact them and help to express certain messages. Learn about how an educator uses this routine with her third and fourth grade students.

Power, Possibilities, Me is a protocol for supporting students to consider how forces of power and oppression might be embedded in the design of content, objects, and systems—and to reflect on their own powers in relation to content, object, and systems. Read about one teacher's exploration of power with her fifth grade students here.

Voice, Choice, and Mending is a tool for supporting learners to make legacy visible by engaging them in Critical Historical Mending (CHM). CHM is the practice of looking closely at legacy and illuminating historical truths that are often untold or under-told. Voice, Choice, and Mending positions the learner as mender/maker of a mend. The tool is accompanied by a second version, titled Voice, Choice, and Mender in which learners look closely at the work of another mender and explore the complexities of an already mended artifact. Read about Voice, Choice, and Mending in practice.

The development of this set of tools was led by Jaime Chao Mignano, with thought partnership from JxD director Sheya and educators at the Washington International School.

This is a set of questions for students and educators that support critical inquiry and awareness when looking closely at, interacting with, and exploring the complexity of human-designed objects and systems.

Making Memory is a JusticexDesign Making Routine that encourages students to develop awareness around the impact of design choices on remembering and memory.

This lesson plan explores how you can use a tangible object as a metaphor for looking closely and exploring the complexity of a system and in particular, systems of power and oppression.

This tool was developed by Jaime Chao Mignano and Mark Perkins in collaboration with Agency by Design's Making Across the Curriculum initiative. It is featured here because of its resonance with the JusticexDesign framework. Read more about this tool on the Agency by Design website.

Voice and Choice is a protocol for looking critically at content, considering perspectives and representation, and then redesigning or reimagining that content from one's own perspective. It is a great resource for inviting students to consider multiple perspectives, including those missing or quieted, in stories, artworks, media, and systems.

This tool, also available in Spanish, was developed by Agency by Design's Making Across the Curriculum initiative. It is featured here because of its resonance with the JusticexDesign framework. Learn more about this tool on the Agency by Design website.

Voice and Choice is a protocol for looking critically at content, considering perspectives and representation, and then redesigning or reimagining that content from one's own perspective. It is a great resource for inviting students to consider multiple perspectives, including those missing or quieted, in stories, artworks, media, and systems.

This tool, also available in Spanish, was developed by Julie Rains in collaboration with Agency by Design's Making Across the Curriculum initiative. It is featured here because of its resonance with the JusticexDesign framework. Learn more about this tool on the Agency by Design website.