The last decade has witnessed the supervening of data-driven technologies and simultaneously their unfortunate social consequences. These consequences, which are unjust, unethical, and sometimes downright illegal, become harder to avoid when the product/service is already in the hands of people but are still malleable during the design and development phase. Realizing this, the attempts to restore a moral balance in their creation are now rising with most efforts targeted towards professionals involved in the tech-design and development industry. Critical reflections on decisions related to the use of data and technology by design students are, however, still insufficient. An opportunity lies here, in bringing ethical awareness and in encouraging responsible action amongst students, who can become agents of positive change. The purpose of this research is to draw pragmatic boundaries for tech-digital-data ethical considerations to thrive within design classrooms, at every defining phase of the design process. The aim is to first create a prototype toolkit, derived through the critical review of various ethical approaches (future thinking, humanity-centred, value-sensitive and privacy by design) and tools (22 cases), and then to test it for its efficacy in guiding ethical thinking and doing in a sample of Product Service System Design (PSSD) students, of Politecnico di Milano. The qualitative analysis of this test derives a set of preliminary recommendations to create and holistically integrate ethical tools into the design studio curriculum, thus, setting the ground for a design research inquiry that would benefit educators in improving ethics literacy among upcoming designers.
Nell’ultimo decennio si è assistito al sopraggiungere di tecnologie data-driven e, contemporaneamente, alle loro sfortunate conseguenze sociali. Queste conseguenze, ingiuste, non etiche e talvolta addirittura illegali, sono più difficili da evitare quando il prodotto/servizio è già nelle mani delle persone ma possono essere mitigate durante la fase di progettazione e sviluppo. Ciò detto, si registrano sempre più tentativi tra professionisti del settore tech-design & development di stabilire un equilibrio morale nella creazione di prodotti/servizi data-driven, mentre gli stimoli di riflessione critica offerti agli studenti di design circa l’uso dei dati e della tecnologia ci appaiono insufficienti. Nei percorsi di formazione c’è l’opportunità di diffondere più consapevolezza etica e di incoraggiare un’azione responsabile tra gli studenti, così che possano diventare agenti di cambiamento positivo. Lo scopo di questa ricerca è quello di tracciare confini pragmatici affinchè le considerazioni etiche tech-digital-data possano prosperare all’interno delle aule di progettazione, in ogni fase di definizione del processo di progettazione. L’obiettivo è quello di creare un prototipo di toolkit, derivato dalla revisione critica di vari approcci etici (‘future thinking’, ‘humanity-centred’, ‘value-sensitive’ e ‘privacy by design’) e strumenti (22 casi) e di testarne poi l’efficacia nel guidare il pensiero e l’azione di un campione di studenti del corso magistrale di Product Service System Design (PSSD) del Politecnico di Milano. Dall’analisi qualitativa di questo test sono state derivate una serie di raccomandazioni preliminari per creare e integrare olisticamente strumenti etici nel curriculum del Final Design Studio del corso, così da porre le basi per un’indagine di ricerca progettuale che consentirebbe ai docenti di migliorare l’educazione etica tra i futuri progettisti.
Preliminary research on ethics education : for the design of data-driven services. How to bring awareness about data and its associated technologies to design students ?
Garg, Divya Anil
2019/2020
Abstract
The last decade has witnessed the supervening of data-driven technologies and simultaneously their unfortunate social consequences. These consequences, which are unjust, unethical, and sometimes downright illegal, become harder to avoid when the product/service is already in the hands of people but are still malleable during the design and development phase. Realizing this, the attempts to restore a moral balance in their creation are now rising with most efforts targeted towards professionals involved in the tech-design and development industry. Critical reflections on decisions related to the use of data and technology by design students are, however, still insufficient. An opportunity lies here, in bringing ethical awareness and in encouraging responsible action amongst students, who can become agents of positive change. The purpose of this research is to draw pragmatic boundaries for tech-digital-data ethical considerations to thrive within design classrooms, at every defining phase of the design process. The aim is to first create a prototype toolkit, derived through the critical review of various ethical approaches (future thinking, humanity-centred, value-sensitive and privacy by design) and tools (22 cases), and then to test it for its efficacy in guiding ethical thinking and doing in a sample of Product Service System Design (PSSD) students, of Politecnico di Milano. The qualitative analysis of this test derives a set of preliminary recommendations to create and holistically integrate ethical tools into the design studio curriculum, thus, setting the ground for a design research inquiry that would benefit educators in improving ethics literacy among upcoming designers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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