OTESSA 2024

Ethics in Design

Showcase

Introduction

Welcome to the inaugural OTESSA conference Ethics in Design Showcase. For this conference strand, we are have gathered design examples and design cases that illuminate how designers are incorporating different ethical considerations into either their design processes or designed artifacts (tangible, spatial, digital, or otherwise).

Premise of the Ethics in Design Showcase

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum regularly curates exhibits of design across all different design disciplines and industries. Many of their curations frequently feature various ways that designers, developers, and manufacturers incorporate different ethical considerations into their work. For example, they hosted an exhibit on “Why Design Now?” that centered around how “doing good” can be translated into tangible artifacts, physical spaces, processes, and other design activities and artifacts.

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Critical Design

Conceptual/Position Papers

Design Case Exhibition

Chairs of the Ethics in Design Conference Strand

Dr. Stephanie Moore is an Assistant Professor in Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computing in Higher Education and a former Fellow with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and Dollar General Foundation. Her on-going work from this fellowship focuses on the use of learning technologies for adult literacy. Dr. Moore is the lead author for a recent book, Ethics and Educational Technology: Reflection, Interrogation, and Design as a Framework for Practice, and she is co-editor has a book coming out soon, Applied Ethics for Instructional Design and Technology.

Her areas of expertise include ethics of technologies for learning, online and blended learning, educational / learning technologies, multimedia learning, performance improvement, strategic planning that includes societal impact, and accessibility.

Dr. Ahmed Lachheb is a design scholar, practitioner, and educator. He serves as a Senior Learning Experience Designer at the University of Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation. His research interests include design practice, designers’ design knowledge and actions, design theory, and design pedagogy. He earned his Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington and masters in Educational Technology from Grand Valley State University.

He is the Managing Executive Editor of the International Journal of Designs for Learning (IJDL) and a member of the Advisory Board of the AECT Center of Excellence in Publishing.

More about his work can be found on his website: lachheb.me.