Ethics, design, and creativity: A fruitful combination

Wouter Eggink; Steven Dorrestijn; Karin van der Heijden; Ilse Ouwens

doi:10.21606/drs.2022.158

Ethics, design, and creativity: A fruitful combination

Wouter Eggink, Steven Dorrestijn, Karin van der Heijden, Ilse Ouwens

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In the context of the designers responsibility for the impact of technology, ethical considerations are important. However, these considerations are often seen as limiting innovation and the freedom of the designer. Is it possible, on the contrary, that ethics can also foster creativity in design? The research project Tech-Wise is about a practice oriented approach in ethics; developing tools to engage people with ethical deliberation on the impact of technology. One result of the project is a workshop format for stimulating ethical deliberation that can be tailored to particular technologies and design disciplines. We argue from the results of one particular instance of this workshop format that such an approach to ethics has a fruitful reciprocal effect. It can stimulate creativity in design by enriching the question about the purpose of an innovation, and the other way around enrich ethical reasoning by opening up to often surprising impacts of technologies.

Original language	English
Pages	1-15
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.158
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2022
Event	Design Research Society Conference, DRS 2022 - Bilbao, Spain Duration: 25 Jun 2022 → 3 Jul 2022 https://www.drs2022.org

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Conference	Design Research Society Conference, DRS 2022
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Bilbao
Period	25/06/22 → 3/07/22
Internet address	https://www.drs2022.org

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Creativity
Ethics and design
Ethics of Technology
Practical Turn

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Speculative ethics, design, philosophy & education
Eggink, W., 24 Jun 2024, Proceedings of DRS 2024 : Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination. Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. & Lloyd, P. (eds.). Design Research Society, p. 1-15 15 p.
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Wijs met techniek: Met praktische werkvormen ethisch reflecteren over de impact van techniek
Translated title of the contribution: Tech-Wise: ethical deliberation about the impact of technology through practical working methodsvan der Heijden, K., Eggink, W., Ouwens, I. & Dorrestijn, S., 31 Mar 2023, Deventer: Tech Your Future. 29 p.
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Editorial: Ethics as Creativity in Design
Eggink, W. & Dorrestijn, S., 28 Jun 2022, DRS2022: EDITORIALS. Lockton, D., Lloyd, P. & Lenzi, S. (eds.). Design Research Society, p. 1-3 3 p.
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Wijs met techniek: Met praktische werkvormen ethisch reflecteren over de impact van techniek

Editorial: Ethics as Creativity in Design

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