Module 13 : Design Ethics
  Lecture 36 : Designers who shape the users, Needs and wants Ecology and Environmental Consideration, Multicultural and Multi-ethnicConsideration, Honest Ethical Practice, Means and ends, Methods and tools, Individual and collective, Form and function, Innovation and tradition, Conclusion
 

Exercise #02: Make a concept design of ‘footwear’ based on local conditions (semi-rural), material and suitability that could also address Global market.

Honest Ethical Practice
  • Do we want to be honest to our solutions which we could adopt and practice as well?

Means and ends

  • The ethical design solution and its practise is part of ethical philosophy. A sound philosophical reasoning (ethical) would lead to sound design solution.
  • Ethical examination of a product solution would justify its honesty and sincerity.
Methods and tools
  • Each person is rooted to their cultural heritage. Therefore, every design process has to adopt methods and tools that are associated with the local, national and other cultural ethos.
  • Traditionally every design revolves around sound ethical reasoning. Therefore each design has to consider ethically appropriate mechanism that would harmonize with the design process and ethics.
  • Each project has to be developed based on group-based methods involving larger groups for the acceptance in the society.