Ethics in Design and Communication

Critical Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life—choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on which the global systems of inequity currently balance precariously. But designers face the additional dilemma that their paid work is often entangled with promoting the same systems such critical approaches seek to redress: how to reconcile this contradiction, among others, in seeking to chart an ethical course of action while still functioning effectively in the world.Ethics in Design and Communication acknowledges the complexity of this subject matter, while also demonstrating that in the ongoing struggle towards an equitable and sustainable world, the talents of design and critical thought are essential. Featured case studies include graphic design internships today, the dark web, and media coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. The fact that within this book such a wide array of practitioners, scholars, critics, and professionals commit to addressing current injustices is already a positive sign. Nonetheless, it is essential that we guard against confusing the coercive force of moral imperatives with ethical deliberation when conceiving a foundation for action.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-02-20
Mått188 x 244 x 12 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350077041

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Laura Scherling Ed.D. is a designer, researcher, and author. She is a director and faculty at Columbia University, USA, and researches emerging technologies, design, media, and sustainability topics. She completed her doctorate at Columbia University Teachers College. Andrew DeRosa is Assistant Professor of Design at Queens College, CUNY, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications Design at the Pratt Institute, USA.

INTRODUCTIONPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction to the Selection of TextsForeword: Assumptions of Ethics and Agency in Design Johanna DruckerIn Search of a Philosophy for Design EthicsLaura ScherlingDESIGN IN SOCIETYDesigning Ethics in Large Scale Sociotechnical Systems Jeffrey ChanAll Models Are Wrong: Information Design in a Post-truth World Rachel BergerSwiping Left on Empathy: Gamification and Commodification of the (Inter)face Sarah Edmands MartinDark User Experience: From Manipulation to Deception Marc Miquel-RibéDesigning Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality: Methods for Merging Body Sovereignty Theory into VR Design Practice Michelle Cortese, Andrea ZellerWho Owns the Smart City? Towards an Ethical Framework for Civic AIMichael A. Madaio, Sarah Edmands MartinDesign Possibilities and Responsibilities in Framing Well-being Heekyoung Jung THEORY AND COMMUNICATIONDesign and Emergent Ethical Crises Peter BuwertDesigning Ourselves to Death: The Politics of Progress Versus an Ethics of Survival in a Diminishing World David StairsFreedom and Communication Design: An Ethical Approach Sara Velez EstêvãoAbout an Ethics of Design Activism Maziar RezaiEthics in Contemporary Civic Engagements: Towards an Ethics of a Minor Design Activism Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Sissel OlanderGraphic Design and Activism: Reflecting on Interactions Andréa PosharWORK AND PEDAGOGYWORK Designing Tools for Low-Income Community Organizing Luke JordanDesign and Sustainable Development: Beyond Aesthetic and Functional Qualities Iván AsinDesigning Ethics Tools for Self-Reflection, Collaboration, and Facilitation Ciara Taylor, Samantha DempseyNoto Project: Between Harmony and Homogeneity Suna JeongThe Role of Ethics Online and Among Social Media Designers Meredith JamesPEDAGOGY Caring for What We Leave Behind: Ethical Considerations in Social Innovation PedagogyMariana AmatulloPerpetuating Class Divide: The Reality of Graphic Design Internships Kathryn WeinsteinHighlighting Race Issues Through Mentoring and Design Sabrina Hall, Anjali MenonThe Design Process is a Research Process: Students and the Ethics of Inquiry David Gelb, Angela NorwoodHome: The Ethics of Addressing In-Equal Design Peter Claver FineThreading Ethics in a Design Curriculum Paul J. Nini IndexAuthor Biographies

We are no longer operating in a world where we simply encounter objects and artifacts designed to act upon us. We are increasingly working on platforms and living in environments that are themselves designed to influence our thinking and behaviors. This is a wide-ranging survey of the deeper implications of design choices in the twenty-first century, and an urgent call to bring ethics back into the process, before they are rendered out of reach.