# Introduction ## [[022 Design Justice|Design Justice Network Principles]] ## Defining Key Terms **Design** - There are many meanings to the word - Comes from the Latin *de signum* meaning the act of making a meaningful physical mark on an object. - Design is a universal practice in human communities according to Victor Papnek - Work by marginalized designers have been made invisible (i.e. the Black women who computed flight trajectory for NASA). - While everyone designs, only professional designers are acknowledged. - The designer as a role came about during the Industrial Revolution. - What was once done by craft guilds were instead handled by specialists. - "[T]his new task—designing for a class of people whom the designer did not interact—helped mark the origin of industrial design." - Designers also, at the time, took on a new role: "to reshape formerly hand-crafted processes into ones that machines could do. Mass and assembly-line-based production stimulated, or necessitated, the creation of many designs for artifacts aimed at a broad mass of consumers and for machines designed to help in manufacturing other machines." > [!Quote] *Design for the Real World* by Victor Papanek > "All [people] are designers ... Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order."