Abstract Though the origins of neoliberalism, design, and racism are situated at disparate moments in time, these systems support, reproduce, and reify one another in the United States today. Some contemporary design practices – especially Design Thinking – tend to simultaneously compound and conceal the oppressive effects of both neoliberalization and racism. Rarely does design proactively seek to unsettle racism from its own operations or the larger set of power hierarchies, which it upholds. This essay documents how neoliberalization has pushed design, capitalism, and racism to converge in formative ways; it interrogates the role of innovation in binding these systems together and producing new forms of racism and design; and it articulates how design reinscribes racism into its operations by dissecting elements of visual language, problem-framing, and empathy as a design sensibility in Moneythink’s IDEO.org-designed app for teens. This essay concludes by calling for an approach to social design that forces a reckoning with racism.

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新自由主义、设计和种族主义的共同构成性质

摘要 尽管新自由主义、设计和种族主义的起源处于不同的时刻，但这些系统在今天的美国相互支持、复制和具体化。一些当代设计实践——尤其是设计思维——倾向于同时复合和掩盖新自由主义和种族主义的压迫性影响。设计很少主动寻求从其自身的运营或它所维护的更大的权力等级体系中消除种族主义。这篇文章记录了新自由主义如何推动设计、资本主义和种族主义以形成性的方式融合；它探讨了创新在将这些系统结合在一起并产生新形式的种族主义和设计方面的作用；它阐明了设计如何通过剖析视觉语言的元素将种族主义重新融入其运作中，在 Moneythink 的 IDEO.org 为青少年设计的应用程序中，问题框架和同理心作为一种设计敏感性。本文最后呼吁采用一种强制清算种族主义的社会设计方法。