The Ecological Turn in Design: Adopting a Posthumanist Ethics to Inform Value Sensitive Design

摘要: Design for Values (DfV) philosophies are a series of design approaches that aim to incorporate human values into the early phases technological direct innovation beneficial outcomes. The difficulty and necessity directing advantageous futures transformative technologies through application adoption value-based apparent. However, questions whose critical importance. DfV typically enrol stakeholders who may be affected by emergence such technology. regardless which approach is adopted, all enrolled ones propose values. Contemporary scholarship on metahumanisms, particularly those posthumanism, have decentred from its traditionally privileged position among other forms life. Arguments humanist not (and has never been) tenable persuasive. As such, begun provide more encompassing ontology investigation nonhuman Given potentially nature future as relates earth many assemblages, it clear value investigations these fail account relevant (i.e., animals). This paper two primary objectives: (1) argue cogency posthuman ethics in technologies; (2) describe how existing can begin envision principled methodological ways incorporating non-human design. To do this, provides rudimentary outline what constitutes approaches. It then takes up unique called Value Sensitive (VSD) an illustrative example. Out frameworks, VSD most clearly illustrates integration