Digital products come with the promise of efficiency and liberation from the tedious aspects of daily life. But what are the costs of such gains?
From online grocery shopping apps to surveillance cameras, digitalization makes us unconsciously trade values like privacy, fairness and sustainability, for the sake of time saving, comfort and status.But what if products could become embodiments of such value trade-offs? How could we use the design language to nudge the user to engage in a conscious negotiation of values? In this workshop, we will look at and redesign existing digital products to enable discussion on the underlying value trade-offs these embody.
Maria Luce Lupetti
Assistant Professor in Design, TU Delft
Maria Luce Lupetti is an Assistant Professor in Critical Design at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft (NL), and a member of the multi-faculty research initiative on Meaningful Human Control over Intelligent Autonomous Systems AiTech. Her research, at the intersection of design, ethics, AI, and robotics, is focused on understanding and designing responsible human-technology relations. Specifically, she investigates how critical design methods can be used to promote conscious and responsible approaches to AI systems development. She holds a PhD in “Production, Management and Design” from Politecnico di Torino (IT) and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at AiTech (NL), a research fellow at AMS institute (NL), and visiting research fellow at X-Studio, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University (CN).
Music: Soundstripe Inc.
Track: Stardust
Artist: Cody Martin
Writer: Cody Kurtz Martin
Publisher: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS
