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Hello, I’m Charlotte.

@ziobc

Hello, I’m Charlotte.

Bochum Seattle Joburg

@ziobc

Ethics and Morals in Design

Ethics and morals relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. While they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are difgerent: ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.

Intangible and tangible products can lead to richer experiences for certain populations, but at what expense to

• ur local/global society and to the planet?

How and when does the designer learn his or her role in the negotiation of ethical considerations? How do we begin to think critically about our design process and the resulting impacts of our designs?

My Guiding Questions

Ethics & morals must be considered in the fjnal designed artifact, as well as in its production process.

Victor Papanek Batya Friedman Kristy Tillman

“The designer’s...social and moral judgement must be brought into play long before he begins to design, since he has to make a judgement...as to whether the products he is asked to design or redesign merit his attention at all.”

Victor Papanek

Batya Friedman

“Value Sensitive Design...is an approach to the design of information and computer systems that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner throughout the design process. While emphasizing the moral perspective (e.g., privacy, security, trust, human dignity, physical & psychological wellbeing, informed consent, intellectual property), VSD also accounts for usability (e.g., ease of use), conventions (e.g., standardization of technical protocols), and personal predilections (e.g., color preferences).”

Kristy Tillman

Design at its core is a manifestation of cultural values, where an artifact exists as a culmination

• f commentaries about its makers and his or her

tools and processes. Design is not a culturally neutral endeavour–it is literally the codifying

• f our own norms, socializations, dysfunctions,

biases, preferences, and worldviews into the harvest of our labor. The natural result is that designers play a large role in determining how other people experience and make meaning of their world.

_ Who teaches our algorithms? _ Technological solutionism _ Some little things _ What can we do?

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

MIT Moral Machine Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

“If we don’t instill ethics or morals into newly created bots, just as we do with our children, they will digest and spit back the worst of humanity unthinkingly.”

• The Telegraph

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

_ Who teaches our algorithms? _ Technological solutionism _ Some little things _ What can we do? _ Technological solutionism

“Solutionism interprets issues as puzzles to which there is a solution, rather than problems to which there may be a response.”

• Gilles Paquet

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

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Food Exercise Nature Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Are we starting from the right place?

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

_ Why does the US incarcerate more people than any other nation? _ How can we lessen the overpolicing of black neighborhoods? _ How do we reform sentencing of drug crimes? _ What does a robust re-entry program look like?

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Solving other people’s problems?

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

_ Who teaches our algorithms? _ Technological solutionism _ Some little things _ What can we do? _ Some little things

Lakisha Brent Rasheed Kristen

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

Algorithms Technological Solutionism Little Things

The good news is that awareness is up, and there’s lots we can do.

“In « co-design » or « collaborative design » processes, design teams have members on it who are from a community-based organization or a neighborhood association. In this case, true partnerships are built between community based organizations, civic technologists, developers and designers.”

• Sasha Costanza Chock, MIT

Co- / Participatory Design

“Critical design takes a critical theory based approach to design. This kind of design uses design fjction and speculative design proposals to challenge assumptions, conceptions about the role of objects play in everyday life.”

• Wikipedia

Critical/Speculative Design

“Designers and makers need more

• pportunities to refmect on why we

make and what it means for society.” “We can’t hide behind ignorance and neutrality, and we need to be able to stand behind the decisions we make every day.”

• MIT Media Lab

Reflecting as we Make

“Engineering has a direct and vital impact on the quality of life for all

• people. Accordingly, the services

provided by engineers require honesty, impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. Engineers must perform under a standard of professional behavior that requires adherence to the highest principles of ethical conduct.

• NSPE Code of Ethics

Engineering Code of Ethics

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

Thank you!

charlotte@inquisition.co.za