Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1111721
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.21606/dma.2018.493
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the Design Research Society 2018: Catalyst
- First page
- 172
- Volume
- 1
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- ISSN
- 2398-3132
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- This conference paper presented at the Design Research Society 2018 conference presents an analysis of the role which professional codes might play in relation to the ethicality of design activity. Many professional organisations within the various fields of design activity publish such codes in one form or another. The use in practice of professional codes of ethics is regularly referred to in literature on design ethics. However, the original contribution of this research is the interrogation of the function and role of such documents within design – something which has not until this point been explicitly investigated theoretically or practically in relation to this specific context. The first contribution of this paper is therefore to draw from the external literature on professional codes to construct and present a framework for understanding the roles and functions which professional codes may play specifically within professional design activity. The use of this framework is demonstrated through presentation and examination of the content of fourteen professional codes issued by design organisations. The paper concludes with a discussion presenting possible critiques of the nature and operation of professional codes within the context of design, and reflecting on some of the implications of this analysis for how we might reasonably think about the relationship between professional codes and bigger questions of the ethicality of design. The framework and its demonstration within the paper provide a novel robust scaffolding for consideration of these issues within design ethics discourse. The paper was recognized by reviewers in the DRS double-blind peer review process as a ‘Top 15 Recommended Best Paper’ from a field of over 200 papers.
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