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page 3. 'Design is undergoing reconceptualisation triggered by debates about its potential to instigate meaningful social, cultural and environmental change.'
page 3. 'a growing consensus about environmental fragility, and how practices of production and consumption are contributing to an unsustainable future, underpins a discourse that sees the potential of design to be a transformative.'
page 3. 'There is little disagreement that we are witnessing an 'ethical turn' occurring in the professional and allied practises, including the design fields. This reconceptualisation extends design's role- and that of practitioner's responsibility- beyond stylistic enhancement, or the quest for optimal product solutions, to account for the aesthetic dimensions of human experience and the consequences of creative decision-making underpinning design process. The traditional roles of the design, designer and designed object are thus redefined through new understandings of the relationship between the material and immaterial aspects of design, where the design product and process are understood as embodiments of ideas, values and beliefs. This notion brings to the fore central questions around social responsibility, sustainability and consideration for the life of the object beyond the design studio.'
page 3/4. 'Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to ethics requires a recognition of the plurality of opinions, practices and socio-cultural perspectives, and the opportunity to open established value systems to questioning and renegotiation.'
page 10. 'The question of ethics is a question that defines the values that an individual would live by in order to increase the possibility of generating common 'good' with others, in corollary, eschew 'bad' relations that reduce their capacities as human beings.'
page 10. 'Other questions the subscription to human moral imperatives of thinking and doing 'right' or 'wrong'.'
page 10. 'Design disciplines are not exempt from this phenomenon. After all, design and designers are implicated in the generation of materialisation of much of what can loosely be considered the artificial or constructed environment.'
page 11. 'As in all disciplines, the designer is an ethical subject at two levels. First, as a practioner, a person who acts professionally in the name of a discipline, or whose actions can be described as subscribing to the commonly understood tenets that identify a discipline.'
page 11. 'a designer is an ambassador for the moral obligations of the disciplines of design. Disciplinarity affects thinking and action by providing frameworks for how we are able to see and organise what we are able to say.'
page 11. 'the designer is a human citizen outside disciplinary qualifications, where she or he is subject to more general, and perhaps universally accepted, values that govern relations with other human citizens.'
page 11. 'Concerns surrounding design's impact on the biophysical realm, including natural ecosystems, spawned a generation of approaches under the ambit of 'environmental ethics', which are often mistakenly made synonymous with the much used but highly abused notion of 'sustainable design'. The impact of design on the environment forces designers to confront their practises and the effects these have on other human beings in the short term'.
page 13. 'the relationship between the 'good' and ethics relies upon careful negotiation of the territories between the 'good' and ethics, and between design and ethics, as the study of the relations between ethics and design is often more complicated by a circular argument. Ethics- at least in the normative ethics or moral theory is generally argued to involve both a theory of the 'right' and of the 'good'. The right relates to knowledge of a moral imperative and involves metaphysical ideas of justice, virtue and ethos, whereas the good can be defined in terms of value based on a 'positive' benefit defeated by action, as in 'good design'- the criteria for which comes, in a circular fashion, from knowledge of, and feeling for, the 'right'. That is, 'good' design is generally defined as 'ethically sound', which is assumed to mean accessible, useful and safe, all of which arrive from a moral imperative that stems from a metaphysical knowledge of the right- and around it goes.'
196. 'The project of rethinking design practice has been taken up by design theorists who take debate beyond the designed object to encompass conceptions of design practice as an ongoing, lived activity, which is capable of transforming our lived experience both in terms of the objects we use and also the way we operate in our world.'
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