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title: Ethical Design
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## Syllabus 
In this series of lectures we will first deal with design theory, focussing on decision making and zoomin in on insights from design research about cognitive processes in design. We will then deal with an introduction to the philosopgy of technology. After that, we will address different ethical frameworks to analyze a design and technology, and the ethical implications of being a professional. We will end by dealing with the ethics of artificial intelligence, especifically on the issue of bias.

**Objectives**

To be able to understand the process of decision making in design and the nature of design problems.

To understand the nature of technology and its relationship with humans.
To gain an awareness and understanding of ethics and its entailments for the design profession and the development of technology.
To know the limits and potentialities of ethical reflection.

## Deliverables

5 min presentation on topic of choice as basis for discussion.

## Additional Resources

Cross, Nigel. Designerly Ways of Knowing. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007.

Dorst, Kees. Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015.

Vallor, Shannon. Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Verbeek, Peter-Paul. Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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