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Design Ethics @fredvanamstel, PhD researcher at University of Twente What is ethics anyway? Universal values The notion of goodness Societal norms Ethical choice What should Morality I do? Action What do I What can I want to

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Design Ethics

@fredvanamstel, PhD researcher at University of Twente

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What is ethics anyway?

Universal values
The notion of goodness
Societal norms

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Ethical choice

Will Agency Morality Action

What do I want to do? What should I do? What can I do?

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Why ethics is important for design

Designed things influence will, agency and morality
Designers must make ethical choices
Designers are accountable
There are norms other than regulations to be

followed

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How to analyze ethical choices

Consequentialist
Measurable effects
Conditions for acting
Deontologic
Explicit intentions
Explications

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Measurable example

Robert Moses was one of the

major player on prioritizing cars in United States urban planning

He built bridges too low for

buses

Paved big highways with thin

sidewalks

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Intentional example

Brasilia city was completely

built from scratch to symbolize the modernization of Brazil

Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer

designed buildings that clearly introduced new political values

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Architecture of Hapiness

Allain de Botton

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Diversity

The Pruit-Igoe complex was a

huge failure because people didn’t wanted to be leveled down

Modernity coexist with pre-

modernity and post-modernity

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Metadesign

Design the conditions for design
Tools, process, principles
Extrapolate possibilities
Make actionable functions

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Is technology neutral?

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Open Design

Design simple tools
Share design knowledge
Flexibility for adaptations
Expand possibilities, allow ethical choices

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http://openarchitecturenetwork.org

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http://www.ewb-international.org/

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Exercises

Behavior changing briefings

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Design With Intent Toolkit

Cards to provoke designers to

think about possible ways to influence behavior

http://www.danlockton.com/

dwi/Main_Page

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Energy waste

People waste unecessary energy for internal climate control

which card seems more similar to this solution?

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Traffic in Enschede Center

There are too much cars going

inside the city center

How to desincourage going to

the center by car?

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Foreigners

Hypothetic scenario: Europe is

crashed and only Nederlands preserved its economy

Many legal and illegal imigrants

enter the country

Imigrants creates a lot of

annoyment

How to induce imigrants to leave

the country without using brute force?

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