Ethical Design Things: More-than-Human Ethics in Design Practice

This research addresses the ethical issues that abound in professional design practice. If these issues are identified, they are seldom discussed and mitigated. As such, this research aims to 1) observe human-centered design in action, 2) develop a series of tools, artifacts, and methods—what I refer to as ethical design things—to foreground matters of ethics in design, and 3) deploy these things in design practice to engage participants and publics. The result is a series of tools, artifacts, and methods that reify matters of ethics in professional design practice and expand who and what participates in design and how ethics are enacted.

Faculty Supervisor:

Ron Wakkary

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Partner:

Domain7 Solutions Inc.;Versett

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

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