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Examining the practice of design through the lens of professional ethics, this book's critical vision enables practitioners, academics and students to reflect on the ethics of designing. The volume argues for a practice-based cultivation of ethics and provides a normative direction to guide individual and collective professional design activity.
List of contents
Introduction and Overview
PART I: The Design Profession
Chapter 1 Design, Designers and Normativity
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Chapter 2 Professions as Moral Projects
Chapter 3: Is design a profession?
Chapter 4: Necessary Objections and a Call to Action
PART II: An Inquiry into Design Professional Ethics
Chapter 5: Charting an Inquiry into Design Professional Ethics
Chapter 6: A philosophical foundation for our inquiry
PART III: Towards a Practice-Centred Design Professional Ethics
Chapter 7: Uncovering a Purpose for Design
Chapter 8: The full circle: from responsibility to action
Chapter 9: Flourishing and Enduring as a Designer
Coda: Teaching Design Professional Ethics
About the author
Ariel Guersenzvaig is a senior lecturer and researcher at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, which is affiliated to Pompeu Fabra University. He is a practising designer with 20 years of experience, and teaches and writes about design methodology, service design, and the ethics of design and technology. He has published in academic journals such as AI & Society and IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.
Summary
If design is, as Herbert Simon argued, ‘concerned with how things ought to be’, the influence designers have over the lives of others should not to be taken lightly. This book helps practitioners and students to analyse the ethics of their work and guides them in designing artefacts that are conducive to human flourishing.
