Papers by the Center for Generative Justice
Eglash, R. “An Introduction to Generative Justice.” Teknokultura 13(2), 369-404: Dec 2016.
Robinson, K. P., Eglash, R., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Guzdial, M., Nayebare, M. Computing for Community-Based Economies: A Sociotechnical Ecosystem for Democratic, Egalitarian and Sustainable Futures. The Information Society, forthcoming.
Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Robinson, K. P., Nayebare, M. (2025). Ubuntu AI: Machine Learning for Regenerative Design Ecologies. In Philipp Hacker (ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society.
Robinson, K. P., Garvin, M., Eglash, R., Robert, L., Guzdial, M., & Bennett, A. (2024). Making exploratory search engines using qualitative case studies: a mixed method implementation using interviews with Detroit Artisans. Journal of Integrated Global STEM, 1(1), 15-32.
Eglash, R., Nayebare, M., Robinson, K., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Kimanuka, U., & Maina, C. (2024). AI governance through fractal scaling: integrating universal human rights with emergent self-governance for democratized technosocial systems. AI & SOCIETY, 1-14.
Eglash, R., Robinson, K. P., Bennett, A., Robert, L., & Garvin, M. (2024). Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow. Big Data & Society, 11(1), 20539517231221732.
Nayebare, M., Eglash, R., Kimanuka, U., Baguma, R., Mounsey, J., Maina, C. (2023). “Interim Report for Ubuntu-AI: A Bottom-up Approach to More Democratic and Equitable Training and Outcomes for Machine Learning”. Democratic Inputs for AI, OpenAI Foundation, San Francisco, Sept 29, 2023.
Garvin, M., Eglash, R., Robinson, K. P., Robert, L., Guzdial, M., & Bennett, A. (2023). Counter-hegemonic AI: The Role of Artisanal Identity in the Design of Automation for a Liberated Economy. In AI and the Future of Creative Work (pp. 71-88). Routledge.
Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Robinson, K., Robert, L., Garvin, M., & Guzdial, M. (2023). Decolonization, computation, propagation: Phyto-human alliances in the pathways towards generative justice. Plants by numbers. Bloomsbury.
Audrey G. Bennett Agentic Design: an Emergent Approach to Generative Justice New Design ideas 5(1) 2021, pp.5-20.
Johnson, K. and Eglash, R. Redesigning On-line Food Consumption To Enhance Racial And Social Inclusion Through Generative Production Networks. New Design ideas 5(1) 2021, pp.21-40.
Babbitt, W. and Lachney, M. Two Concepts of Enoughness as Organizing Design Principles for Generative Stem Education and Culturally Situated Design Tools New Design ideas 5(1) 2021, pp.81-93.
Robinson, K., Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Nandakumar, S., Robert, L. (2020). Authente-Kente – Enabling Authentication for Artisanal Economies with Deep Learning. AI & SOCIETY, Sept 2020, pp. 1-11.
Eglash, R., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Robinson, K., Lachney, M., & Babbitt, W. (2019, August). AI for a Generative Economy: The Role of Intelligent Systems in Sustaining Unalienated Labor, Environment, and Society. AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
Eglash, R., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Robinson, K., Lachney, M., & Babbitt, W. (2019). Automation for the Artisanal Economy: Enhancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crafting Professions with Human-Machine Collaboration. AI & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-019-00915-w.
Lachney, M., Eglash, R., Bennett, A., and Babbitt, W. Generative Computing: African-American Cosmetology as a Link Between Computing Education and Community Wealth. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-21, July 2019
Eglash, R. “Decolonizing Digital Fabrication: Case Studies in Generative Justice.” in Diez, Tomas (ed), Fab Cities, Distributed Design: Barcelona 2018.
Bennett, A. G., Cassim, F., & van der Merwe, M. (2017). How design education can use generative play to innovate for social change: A case study on the design of South African children’s health education toolkits. International Journal of Design, 11(2), 57-72.
Lokko, M. and Eglash, R. Transforming the poor man’s building block: value creation, translation and circulation for upcycled indigenous building materials. FOLIO: Journal of African Architecture, Vol. 1, May 2017 pp 237-249.
Eglash, R. A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics. In Subrahmanian, Eswaran, Odumosu, Toluwalogo, Tsao, Jeff (Eds.) Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation. Springer 2017.
Banks, D. “Anti-Authoritarian Metrics: Recursivity as a strategy for post-capitalism“. Teknokultura 13(2), 405-438, Dec 2016
Callahan, B., Hathaway, H., Krishnamoorthy, M. Quantitative Metrics for Generative Justice: Graphing the Value of Diversity.
Teknokultura 13(2) 567-586: Dec 2016.
Bennett, A. Ethnocomputational creativity in STEAM education: A cultural framework for generative justice Teknokultura 13(2) 587-612: Dec 2016.
Lyles, D., Lachney, M., Foster, E., Zatz, Z. Generative Contexts: Generating value between community and educational settings. Teknokultura 13(2) 613-637: Dec 2016.
Eglash, R., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., Bennett, K., Callahan, B., Davis, J., Drazan, J., et al (2016). “Culturally Situated Design Tools: generative justice as a foundation for STEM diversity”. Pp. 132-151 in Y. A. Rankin and J. O. Thomas (Eds.), Moving students of color from consumers to producers of technology. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Eglash, R. Of Marx and Makers: an Historical Perspective on Generative Justice Teknocultura 16–1, pp. 245-269, July 2016.
Cooke, L. Metatuning: A pedagogical framework for a generative STEM education in game design-based learning Integrated STEM education conference (ISEC), March 5 2016 IEEE
Garvey, C. and Eglash, R. “Satoyama as Generative Justice: Humanity, Hybridity, and Biodiversity in a Horizontal Social Ecology” Pp.58-68 in
Marhöfer, Elke and Lylov, Mikhail. Shape Shifting, Archive Books, 2015.
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Ron Eglash and Ellen Foster, “On the Politics of Generative Justice: African Traditions and Maker Communities.” Presented at “What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? MIT, November 13-15, 2014.
Eglash, R and Garvey, C. “Basins of Attraction for Generative Justice” In Santo Banerjee, Sefika Sule Erçetin, and Ali Tekin (eds)Chaos Theory in Politics. Berlin: Springer, 2014.
Eglash, R. “Generative Justice: the revolution will be self-organized“. Tikkun April 25 2014.
“Distinguishing Generative Justice and Distributive Justice” (ppt for talk at the Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace Conference,Troy, New York, 14-‐16 August 2013).
Eglash, R., and Banks, D. 2014. “Recursive Depth in Generative Spaces: Democratization in Three Dimensions of Technosocial Self-Organization.” The Information Society 30 (2): 106–15. doi:10.1080/01972243.2014.875775.
Papers on Generative Justice by other authors
Lokko, M. L. (2025). Soil Sisters: Emerging Intersectoral Material Designs For Soil Health. Journal of Architectural Education, 79(1), 122-134.
Weaver, B., Corcoran, M., & McNeill, F. (2025). Generative Justice: Exploring Its Reintegrative Possibilities and the Implications for Parole Reform. In Parole Futures: Rationalities, Institutions and Practices. Bloomsbury.
Abojaradeh, N. (2023). When the goals change, the process must too. Smart Villages: Generative Innovation for Livelihood Development, 2, 181.
Krueger, R. (2023). Sustainable urbanism is a failed project and what we can do about it. In A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities (pp. 31-44). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Lee, J. H. (2022). Rodent Trapping and the Just Possible. In Chao, S., Bolender, K., & Kirksey, E. (Eds.). The promise of multispecies justice. Duke University Press.
Logan D. A. Williams Generating Justice through Norms, Design and Standards (or what to do after you fall out of love with Moore’s Law but still love math) New Design ideas 5(1) 2021, pp.41-64.
S.J. Bissett Scott, N.D. Odeleye Generative Justice in Places: Exploring the Values of ‘Spatial Justice’ New Design ideas 5(1) 2021, pp.65-80.
Vandewiele, W. (2018). Sociological and Anthropological Approaches to Restorative Action and Generative Justice: Attention to a hidden bombshell. In Colloquium on.
Hansen, T., & Umbreit, M. (2018). Regenerative justice, beyond restoring. Contemporary Justice Review, 21(2), 185-207.
Araujo, E. Consensus Decision-making as a Research Method for Generative Justice: empirical practices from a money-less economy in Chiapas, Mexico. Teknokultura, 13(2): 439-460, Dec 2016
Kuhn, S. Fiber Arts and Generative Justice. Teknokultura, 13(2): 461-489, Dec 2016.
Kellogg, S. Community based bioremediation: grassroots responses to urban soil contamination . Teknokultura, (13)2: 491-510, Dec 2016.
Dotson, T. and Wilcox, J. Generating Community, Generating Justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives. Teknokultura, 13(2): 511-540, Dec 2016.
Dunbar-Hester, C. “Freedom from Jobs” or learning to love to labor? Diversity advocacy and working imaginaries in Open Technology ProjectsTeknokultura 13(2) 541-566: Dec 2016.
Videos
Designing for Generative Justice (UM Stamps School of Design June 2018)
Decolonizing Digital Fabrication (Fab Cities Summit, Paris June 2018)
Alondra Nelson, keynote for Generative Justice conference RPI June 2014
Conferences
Generative Justice, RPI, Troy NY June 27-29
— original call for papers: http://www.3helix.rpi.edu/?page_id=4073
— links to presentations
Doctoral Dissertations
Robinson, K. (2024) Computing for Community-based Economies. Doctoral Dissertation, UM.
Lyles, D. (2016) Generative Contexts. Doctoral Dissertation, RPI.