Dr Malé Luján Escalante – MA Service Design UAL: London College of Communication.

Ethics through Design (EtD) uses co-design methods to create, facilitate and nurture anticipatory capabilities for research and innovation, responsive to both society and environment. In practice, EtD problematizes both ethics and design. This lecture draws upon ethics of technology to formulate principles of co-design facilitation. EtD understands ethics, beyond regulation and administrative ticking-box exercises, as contextual, creative, and participatory ongoing processes.

EtD has been developed at IsITethical? Exchange originally within Disaster and Risk Management (DRM) and Emergency Response domains, over 7 years of working in partnership with emergency response services, policymakers, academics across disciplines, standardisation organisations, and key IT developer companies and its framework is now being adopted and applied in other sectors including AI for education and AI Responsible Research Innovation. In the lecture, we share the framework we have used to design and facilitate ethical co-design workshops, tools and interventions, posited as response-able pedagogy.