设计伦理

This course offers anintroduction to design ethics. It establishes design as the practice of makingchoices on behalf of others, which typically has broad systemic implications.Through critical reading, discussion, and analysis, the course examines a broadrange of topics relevant to the ethics of design in broader systemic contexts,including social equality and advocacy, natural resource protection, culturaland biological diversity, consumer and labor rights, and artificialintelligence. Students taking this course will present and discuss theoreticalpositions and case studies in class. In doing so, students are expected to developcapacities for critical thinking and evaluation that lead to design advances,to assume aesthetic and ethical perspectives to guide responsible practice, andto demonstrate an awareness of the social, cultural, and environmental impactsof design. Skills: critical reading and discussion, translating theory to designpractice