Outputs (10)

Exploring Philosophical Devices for Thinking About Ethics in Socially Engaged Design: Reflections on a Workshop (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Buwert, P., Bianchin, M., & Heylighen, A. (2020). Exploring Philosophical Devices for Thinking About Ethics in Socially Engaged Design: Reflections on a Workshop. In Socially Engaged Design Conference 2019

Socially engaged design seeks to tackle tangible problems of our society. Yet, all too often attempts to use design in this way bring new problems into being. In this sense, designers are pervasively asked to confront and reason about ethical questio... Read More about Exploring Philosophical Devices for Thinking About Ethics in Socially Engaged Design: Reflections on a Workshop.

Design and Emergent Ethical Crises (2020)
Book Chapter
Buwert, P. (2020). Design and Emergent Ethical Crises. In L. Scherling, & A. DeRosa (Eds.), Ethics in Design and Communication. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

No abstract available.

Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Buwert, P. (2018). Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations. In C. Storni, K. Leahy, M. McMahon, P. Lloyd, & E. Bohemia (Eds.), Proceedings of the Design Research Society 2018: Catalyst (172-186). https://doi.org/10.21606/dma.2018.493

Many of the professional organisations within the various fields of design activity publish professional codes of ethics in one form or another. This paper opens up a discussion of the role which professional codes might play in relation to the ethic... Read More about Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations.

Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture (2017)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. (2017). Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture. Design Journal, 20(sup1), S38-S48. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1353017

This paper presents a conception of aesthetic justice which builds on thoughts of Theodor Adorno and Wolfgang Welsch and attempts to reconcile design’s relationships with both aesthetics and ethics. Where legal justice operates on a principle of hom... Read More about Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture.

Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design (2017)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. (2017). Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design. Design Journal, 20(sup1), S4459-S4467. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352942

This paper presents the argument that design is by nature an activity which extends and transforms potentiality and that therefore, because of this, it is always an ethical activity. This foundational ethicality does not guarantee that design will al... Read More about Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design.

Shepard Fairey’s inauguration posters may define political art in Trump era (2017)
Digital Artefact
Buwert, P. (2017). Shepard Fairey’s inauguration posters may define political art in Trump era

The American street artist Shepard Fairey created a poster for Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. It was 2008 and the simple red, beige and blue stencilled image of Obama’s face over the word “HOPE” quickly became the iconic image of the... Read More about Shepard Fairey’s inauguration posters may define political art in Trump era.

Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design (2016)
Book Chapter
Buwert, P. (2016). Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design. In Modes of Criticism 2: Critique of Method, 25-38

Our lives are habitual. We habitualise what is familiar in order to be able to function day to day, and through this a vast chunk of our living becomes automatic. The process makes life easier by decreasing the confusion and tension of having to cons... Read More about Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design.

Designers are seizing Wall Street – but can they improve your life? (2016)
Digital Artefact
Buwert, P. (2016). Designers are seizing Wall Street – but can they improve your life?

Designers are seizing Wall Street – but can they improve your life?

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.

Design Ethics Thought Experiments
Other
Buwert, P. Design Ethics Thought Experiments. [Printable PDF resource file]

Printable resource: Participant pack of thought experiment worksheets for use in facilitated Design Ethics Training Workshop. This pdf file is designed for double sided printing on landscape A3 paper. Worksheets numbered 1-6 should be folded vertic... Read More about Design Ethics Thought Experiments.