Hi all
Design is closely interwoven with the regulation of behaviour and thus with the execution of power.
Trine Brun Petersen makes this point in her Ph.D. dissertation about design as an ideological and behaviour-regulating phenomenon.
The Danish Centre for Design Research has published an article in the monthly webzine Mind Design about Trine's dissertation:
http://www.dcdr.dk/uk/Menu/Update/Webzine/Articles/Designing+Means+Executing+Power
Subscription to Mind Design is free:
http://www.dcdr.dk/uk/Menu/Update/Webzine/Subscription
Yours,
Hans Emborg Bünemann
Research Coordinator
Danish Centre for Design Research
www.dcdr.dk
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Emne: ehtics for designers?
hi all,
As a product design student in my third year I am beginning to get more and more interested in the ethics of designers.
What are our moral (unwritten) codes. Or is there such a thing all together?
I think we have to take responsibility for our actions. And that our actions should involve making the world a better place.
If we look at the following example:
"Robert Moses, the master builder of roads, parks, bridges, and other public works of the 1920s to the 1970s in New York, built his overpasses according to specifications that would discourage the presence of buses on his parkways."
from "Do Artifacts Have Politicis" Langdon Winner 1986.
Could we then say that Robert Moses is not a designer as defined bij Herbert Simon? He, afterall, did not design for a better world, but for more segregation.
What are your thoughts? Does anyone have some intersting readings I could consult?
Thanks for your time
toon
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