Open AccessTeaching ethical participatory codesign
Author(s) -
Katia Dupret,
Niklas Alexander Chimirri
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
dansk universitetspædagogisk tidsskrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-1374
pISSN - 1901-5089
DOI - 10.7146/dut.v13i24.96709
Subject(s) - participatory design , engineering ethics , diversity (politics) , sociology , politics , bachelor , citizen journalism , pedagogy , computer science , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , parallels , world wide web , anthropology , law
How to incorporate critical and societally relevant thinking and acting into Higher Education teaching formats? The article proposes social design workshops, which teach ethics through design by explicitly addressing and building on the functional diversity of participating stakeholders, and by fostering ongoing mutual reflection. These workshops are inspired by participatory design, political theory, disability studies and psychological practice research. By drawing on empirical material from a design workshop with Bachelor students and external collaborators including psychologically vulnerable stakeholders, we argue for an adaptive framework of analytical-pedagogical inquiry that can be continuously co-designed. In particular, ethical design requires a broad and emergent definition of participation. Ethical design is participatory-democratic co-design, which acknowledges and bridges across the various stakeholders’ functional diversity.