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Editorial: Ethics in/of/for design

2024

Abstract

As a Special Interest Group, we frame design ethics as an invitation to care and argue against reducing it to a methodology, framework, checklist, toolkit, or an afterthought. This broad framing highlights that ‘ethics’ can carry multiple meanings in different contexts and can be approached from various theoretical perspectives. Consequently, this track addresses the need for a nuanced and reflexive discussion on how ethics and design are intertwined. Our track attracted 44 submissions, 17 of which have been accepted through a double-blind peer-review process. We clustered these submissions according to the three main themes in our track title: Ethics in/of/for Design. Most of the submissions help address the question: How to nurture ethical awareness and accountability in design practices? Together, these submissions stimu-late looking back with critical historical awareness, while also looking forward with cautious optimism.

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2024

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/d42f0e70-31e8-4150-b6e7-65a9e162b795

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