Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected by design decisions—about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of our communities, or the structure of our political and economic systems—tend to have the least influence on those decisions and how they are made.
I think this is incredibly important to note. It reminds me of a conversation about Betsey Devos as secretary of education in an education class I took. How can we have someone make decisions about the education system when they have not experienced what it is like to be a teacher? How can one make decisions about design justice if they have not experienced the injustice themselves?