Ethical Design Commons

A collective for people interested in the ethical design of products or services. We are now over at @djnscotland

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Hello! We’re hospicing this account because we’ve joined forces with @djnscotland, a #designjustice network node in Scotland. If you want to apply critical thinking to design and centre people who are most impacted by yet usually excluded from design processes, follow us there!

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Our next book discussion is April 22nd with @LockhartL and @alexiscpala! Join up to talk about ideas in @HilaryCottam's Radical Help, compare relational practice frameworks and reflect on how you are/are not working toward design justice. Deets here -> https://t.co/gTZhzQM0JQ

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@StefanMorales Fabulous! You’re ahead of the curve, Stefan. We’re going to start promoting widely from today. Glad you got in first!

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How do we assess, reflect and reflex in the interest of ethics in the design of services? How do we understand the Designer's role as facilitator, not expert, in the creation of services? Online group disucssion around this and more on February 12th https://t.co/cx7AjUA2bw

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'A careful analysis of the recent areas of professional development indicates that "unmet needs" are the growth sector of the service industry...Each of these new discoveries of unmet "needs" creates a "demand" for a new profession.'

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'To my great surprise, I am not asked, "How can I do a better job?" Instead, the question, asked especially by younger people is, "What do you think I could do that is worth doing?" - John McKnight on The Professional Problem in The Careless Society

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Services *need* need in order to survive. When we seek to understand 'user need', how do we assess, reflect and reflex in the interest of ethics, equity and justice? Group discussion around this and more on February 12th https://t.co/cx7AjUA2bw

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'The power to label people deficient and declare them in need is the basic tool of control and oppression in modern industiralised democratic societies. Agents with labeling power are the helping professionals...'

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'...Many advocates of the underclass describe themselves as victims of the 'professional problem'- poor people defined as deficient by those whose incomes depend on the deficiency they define.' - The Careless Society, John McKnight

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Join us February 12th at 6:30pm UK time to discuss! https://t.co/cx7AjUA2bw

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Booking is open for our first online book discussion of 2020! February 12th at 6:30pm UK time we'll be discussing The Careless Society by John McKnight https://t.co/cx7AjUA2bw

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What does this provocation mean for people working in Service Design, 'social design' or 'relational design'? How do Designers come to understand their position as facilitator, not expert? How do they center the voices of those who will be directly impacted by their work?

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@ThirdSectorLab @lilmisstee Thanks, pal!

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Want to read more this year? Us too! We're organising monthly online book discussions so we can apply critical thinking to our design work with likeminded people. Is that you? See https://t.co/cx7AjUA2bw for details of what our book discussions are and what the first book is...

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@albamorg @CormacRussell @petermcd13 Ah thanks, Brian!

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Joining information for our meetup @GlasgowGoMA tomorrow just went out via email to folks who signed up on Eventbrite. If you didn't sign up, you will have missed the email but never fear! Here's what it said:
https://t.co/7h3q7ZfXaX Come along if you can :)

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Join us Saturday afternoon at GOMA in Glasgow! An afternoon reflecting on bias, prejudice and how they influence our design work. Let us know you’re coming ➡️ https://t.co/SRcPuyPXea