TU Delft offers PhD course Design for Justice

The TU Delft will be offering a PhD course in september 2023 via the Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte (OSZW). Ibo van de Poel and Steffen Steinert will be the lecturers. You can sign up for the course via OZSW before August 20th, 2023!

Course summary

Technology has the potential to contribute to a just society, but unfortunately, some technologies only reinforce existing inequalities. To address this issue, methods such as Value Sensitive Design and ethics-by-design have gained popularity over the past decade. These methods aim to integrate values, like justice, into the early stages of technology design and development.

In this course, we explore the relationship between design and justice, asking fundamental questions about design for justice. For example, we consider what justice means, who gets to design, whom we design for, and what values we embed and reproduce in our technology. We also delve into the key philosophical foundations and issues of designing for values, investigating what values are, accounts of how values can be embedded in new technologies, and how value conflicts and value change affects designing for justice. Throughout the course, we examine various cases of designing for justice, including architecture and artificial intelligence.

After the course participants will be able to:

• Understand the relation between technology, values, and justice
• Argue why technology can or cannot embody values (and if so how)
• Explain basic notions of values and justice within philosophy and other relevant disciplines
• Differentiate main approaches to designing for values
• Characterize and discuss ‘value conflict’ and ‘value change’, and understand the implications of these phenomena for designing for values and designing for justice
• Evaluate technology in terms of justice

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• Start Date: September. 4, 2023
• Deadline for registration: August 20, 2023
• Course Length: 5 + 1 days

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Read some of the blogs by former students of the course:

• Designing for Justice: Breaking free from pre-set value constraints
• Balancing Values and Desires: Justifying the Design Process of Sex Robots
• Who cares!? A defense for caring designers and technology
• Giving up Privacy for Justice? Example cases in Humanitarianism
• From design intentions to critical practice