Design Ethics

This is a note about ethics in design.

This needs to be considered in conjuction with ethics of technology, creativity, innovation, computing, AI, bioethics, ethics of opression/liberation, animal ethics, environmental, ecological geoethics, etc. Otherwise, the literature appears to be small and narrow.

For a recent literature overview:

Chivukula, Shruthi Sai, Ziqing Li, Anne C. Pivonka, Jingning Chen, and Colin M. Gray. “Surveying the Landscape of Ethics-Focused Design Methods.” arXiv, 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2102.08909.

References

Andreyev, Julie. “The Compassion Manifesto: An Ethics for Art + Design and Animals.” In Critical Perspectives on Veganism, edited by Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen, 155–80. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Basta, Claudia, ed. Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment. New York: Springer, 2013.

Chan, Jeffrey K. H. Urban Ethics in the Anthropocene: The Moral Dimensions of Six Emerging Conditions in Contemporary Urbanism. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Devon, Richard, and Ibo van de Poel. “Design Ethics: The Social Ethics Paradigm.” International Journal of Engineering Education 20, no. 3 (2004): 461–69.

Dilnot, Clive. “Ethics in Design: 10 Questions.” In Design Studies: A Reader, edited by Hazel Clark and David Eric Brody, 180–91. Oxford: Berg, 2009.

Fisher, Thomas. Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2008.

Fisher, Thomas. Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice. Architecture Briefs. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

Fox, Warwick, ed. Ethics and the Built Environment. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2012.

Hoven, Jeroen van den, Pieter E. Vermaas, and Ibo van de Poel. Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design: Sources, Theory, Values and Application Domains. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015.

Hoven, Jeroen van den, Seumas Miller, and Thomas Pogge, eds. Designing in Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Moran, Seana, David Cropley, and James C. Kaufman. The Ethics of Creativity, 2014.

Russ, Thomas H. Sustainability and Design Ethics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010.

Scherling, Laura, and Andrew DeRosa, eds. Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Tonkinwise, Cameron. “‘I Prefer Not to’: Anti-Progressive Designing.” In Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, edited by Gretchen Coombs, Gavin Sade, and Andrew McNamara, 74–84. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

Tonkinwise, Cameron. “Ethics by Design, or the Ethos of Things.” Design Philosophy Papers 2, no. 2 (2004): 129–44. https://doi.org/10/gd4q6b.

Umbrello, Steven. “The Ecological Turn in Design: Adopting a Posthumanist Ethics to Inform Value Sensitive Design.” Philosophies 6, no. 2 (2021): 1–21. https://doi.org/10/gjtp89.

Verbeek, Peter-Paul. Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Westerlaken, Michelle. “It Matters What Designs Design Designs: Speculations on Multispecies Worlding.” Global Discourse 11, no. 1–2 (2021): 137–55. https://doi.org/10/gjb7ms.

Willis, Anne-Marie. “Design Ethics.” Design Philosophy Papers 2, no. 2 (2004): 89–94. https://doi.org/10/gfsp6n.


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