Spatial justice in design research: A transdisciplinary discourse

Within Design Research Society (DRS) Conference (Boston, 23rd-28th June 2024), the research track Spatial justice in design research: A transdisciplinary discourse is an experimental opening of a transdisciplinary conversation between researchers and professionals on the spatialities of justice: how justice permeates everyday life, physicaldigital spaces and communities we live in. It takes on the challenge to bringing spatial justice down from abstract theorisations, to how it can be practiced and achieved. Here the design research contribution becomes pivotal, as it shows the multiplicity of ‘how(s)’ of navigating socio-spatial inequalities in physicaldigital spaces. This is what the six accepted papers in the track do: they discuss case studies, applications, participatory, artistic, and digital tools of investigation, to explore novel paths toward more equal spatial settings.

The six accepted papers and their abstracts are now available on the DRS24 website! The editorial for the track, written by Miriam Tedeschi and Jules Rochielle Sievert, is available open access here.

Keywords: spatial justice; design methods; transdisciplinarity; socio-spatial inequalities

Track Chairs:
● Dr. Miriam Tedeschi, Researcher at the Faculty of Law; also a Docent in human geography at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, Finland.
● Jules Rochielle Sievert, Creative Director, NuLawLab, Northeastern University School of
Law and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Student College Of Art, Media, and Design.