The goods of design : professional ethics for designers / Ariel Guersenzvaig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guersenzvaig, Ariel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Moral and ethical aspects.

Design.

Designers--Professional ethics.

Designers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021

Summary:

"What is the true purpose of the design profession? What ends should professional designers pursue? Firmly rooted in the design practice, this lively and accessible book offers a critical vision that enables designers and students of design of all disciplines to reflect on the purpose of their profession. This book makes the case that professional designers should contribute to the promotion of others' well-being by designing a world in which people can flourish. Using many examples, it helps practitioners and students to analyze the ethics of the work they are asked to do, and guides them in designing material and immaterial artefacts that are conducive to human flourishing. The book also empowers them to discover and analyze the possible moral consequences of their designs, and to act thereupon. 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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction and Overview

Aligning Our View About Design

Aligning Our View About Ethics

Who Is This Book For?

Plan for the Book

Notes

Part I: The Design Profession

1 Design, Designers, and Normativity

Conditions and Epistemic Boundaries for Design

Two Views of Design Activity

The Normative Dimension of Design Outcomes

2 Professions as Moral Projects

Occupations and Professions

Two Key Elements Beyond Competence

Professionalism and Its Discontents

Professional Ethics in a Nutshell

Doesn't Design Need a Code of Ethics?

3 Is Design a Profession?

The Cognitive Element

The Public Service Element

Design Profession or Design Professions?

4 Necessary Objections and a Call to Action

First Objection: Manipulation

Reply to the Objection of Manipulation

Second Objection: Consumerism

Reply to the Objection of Consumerism

Third Objection: Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences Revisited: Taming the Uncertainty

Where Ethics and Design Meet

Part II: An Inquiry into Design Professional Ethics

5 Charting an Inquiry into Design Professional Ethics

Charting the Ground for the Inquiry

A Direction for the Inquiry

The Need for Broadness

Limitations, Difficulties, and Perspectives

6 A Philosophical Foundation for Our Inquiry

A Primer to Virtue Ethics

Alternative Approaches: Principle-based Ethics

Enter Alasdair MacIntyre

Part III: Toward a Practice-Centred Design Professional Ethics

7 Uncovering a Purpose for Design

From Design Practice to Overarching Purpose

Design as a MacIntyrean Practice

A Key Contribution: Extending Abilities and Powers

Design's Purpose and the Flourishing of Others

From Powers to Capabilities.

Reflections around the Telos of Design

Regulative Ideals as Internalised Guidelines for Action

8 The Full Circle

Design and the Virtues

Responsibility as a Virtue

Empathy and Moral Imagination

Design Complexity and Practical Wisdom

Two Objections: 'Responsivity' and Paternalism

9 Flourishing and Enduring as a Designer

Institutions and External Goods: Tensions and Corruption

Constancy, Integrity, and Compartmentalisation

Closing Remarks and Connections

Coda: Teaching Design Professional Ethics

How to Foster the Development of Ethical Expertise

Connections with Design Methodology

Further Reading

Design and Policy Making

Participatory Design and Emerging Roles for Design

Consumption and the Anthropocene

Philosophy and Studies of Technology

Design Ethics

General Introductions to Ethics

Virtue Ethics

Applied Topics Analysed from a Virtue Ethical Perspective

The Capability Approach

Capabilities and Design

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Guersenzvaig, Ariel, 1970- Goods of design.

ISBN:

1-78661-542-8

OCLC:

1246579671