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Thought Experiments in Design Ethics (2024)
Journal Article
Buwert, P., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Thought Experiments in Design Ethics. Temes de Disseny, 40, 54-73. https://doi.org/10.46467/tdd40.2024.54-73

How is the designer to approach questions of responsibility, obligation, or right and wrong in relation to their role in creating, sustaining and altering the complex worlds which we inhabit together? Every design decision stands as the first teeteri... Read More about Thought Experiments in Design Ethics.

An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design (2015)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. M. (2015). An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design. Artifact, 3(3), 4. https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v3i3.3960

Design is often thought of as an activity seeking to change existing situations into preferred ones (Simon, 1969). But how are designers to discern what the nature of this “preferred” change should be? What would it mean to truly design ethically? In... Read More about An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design.