6/17/2021 e.Proofing | Springer https://eproofing.springer.com/books_v3/printpage.php?token=phw1nit2tNEFPjCdjfK4N5rneWbvT8VwiBAnAXJR2NL9pzuOtvY4PiETCBTDyYCc 1/26 Labour-Centred Design for Sustainable and Just Transitions Damian White Email dwhite01@risd.edu Division of Liberal Arts, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA Abstract The abstract is published online only. If you did not include a short abstract for the online version when you submitted the manuscript, the first paragraph or the first 10 lines of the chapter will be displayed here. If possible, please provide us with an informative abstract. This chapter wrestles with the tensions and insights that can emerge drawing together design and environmental labour studies into conversation. If design has long been allied with fulfilling the needs of capital, there have been moments in its history where socialists, anarchists, feminists, environmentalists, decolonialists and others have proposed visions for how our worlds could be redesigned for more worker-friendly and sustainable futures. Critical issues remain concerning whose labour should be acknowledged and recognized when we speak of a ‘politics of design’ and how relations between designers and publics should be conceptualized. The possibility of design to play a central role in moving the Green New Deal forward and allow greater alignment between struggles for industrial democracy, design democracy, just transitions and climate justice is discussed. Keywords Design Architecture Planning Eco-design Labour ecologies 1✉ 1