Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion & Collaboration in Your Community (Wise, 2022)

This Stanford dschool text is an illustrated guide to using core levers of design to facilitate and foster rituals, spaces, roles/responsibilities, and systems that support feelings of belonging to emerge. The book’s premise is that groups are unlikely to thrive unless people feel included and valued, and that the experience of belonging has the capacity to unlock the best in people. The text recognizes power structures and offers paths to designing equitable opportunities for belonging, across social and cognitive differences.

Wise, S. (2022). Design for belonging: How to build inclusion and collaboration in your communities. Ten Speed Press.