Philosophy and Design

by Vermaas, Pieter E.; Kroes, Peter; Light, Andrew; Moore, Steven A.

• ISBN13: 9781402065903
• ISBN10: 1402065906
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-05
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing. These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal and ethical questions are asked. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply. This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Peter Kroes, Andrew Light

Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding.

Part 1

Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts

Designing is the Construction of Use Plans

The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination

Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process

Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design

Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts

Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process

Design Culture and Acceptable Risk

Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design

Emerging Engineering Design

Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology

Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy

Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale

Re-designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?

Designing People: A Post-Human Future?

Redesigning Man?

Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective

Co-designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach

Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design

Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems

Architectural Design

Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect's Role in Society

Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality

Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts

Design Criteria in Architecture

Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design

Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City

Index

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