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.
INTRODUCTION
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Selection of Texts
Foreword: Assumptions of Ethics and Agency in Design
Johanna Drucker
In Search of a Philosophy for Design Ethics
Laura Scherling
DESIGN IN SOCIETY
Designing Ethics in Large Scale Sociotechnical Systems
Jeffrey Chan
All Models Are Wrong: Information Design in a Post-truth World
Rachel Berger
Swiping Left on Empathy: Gamification and Commodification of the (Inter)face
Sarah Edmands Martin
Dark User Experience: From Manipulation to Deception
Marc Miquel-Ribé
Designing Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality: Methods for Merging Body Sovereignty Theory into VR Design Practice
Michelle Cortese, Andrea Zeller
Who Owns the Smart City? Towards an Ethical Framework for Civic AI
Michael A. Madaio, Sarah Edmands Martin
Design Possibilities and Responsibilities in Framing Well-being
Heekyoung Jung
THEORY AND COMMUNICATION
Design and Emergent Ethical Crises
Peter Buwert
Designing Ourselves to Death: The Politics of Progress Versus an Ethics of Survival in a Diminishing World
David Stairs
Freedom and Communication Design: An Ethical Approach
Sara Velez Estêvão
About an Ethics of Design Activism
Maziar Rezai
Ethics in Contemporary Civic Engagements: Towards an Ethics of a Minor Design Activism
Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Sissel Olander
Graphic Design and Activism: Reflecting on Interactions
Andréa Poshar
WORK AND PEDAGOGY
WORK
Designing Tools for Low-Income Community Organizing
Luke Jordan
Design and Sustainable Development: Beyond Aesthetic and Functional Qualities
Iván Asin
Designing Ethics Tools for Self-Reflection, Collaboration, and Facilitation
Ciara Taylor, Samantha Dempsey
Noto Project: Between Harmony and Homogeneity
Suna Jeong
The Role of Ethics Online and Among Social Media Designers
Meredith James
PEDAGOGY
Caring for What We Leave Behind: Ethical Considerations in Social Innovation Pedagogy
Mariana Amatullo
Perpetuating Class Divide: The Reality of Graphic Design Internships
Kathryn Weinstein
Highlighting Race Issues Through Mentoring and Design
Sabrina Hall, Anjali Menon
The Design Process is a Research Process: Students and the Ethics of Inquiry
David Gelb, Angela Norwood
Home: The Ethics of Addressing In-Equal Design
Peter Claver Fine
Threading Ethics in a Design Curriculum
Paul J. Nini
Index
Author Biographies
