In the context of the designers responsibility for the impact of technology, ethical considerations are important. However, these considerations are often seen as limiting innovation and the freedom of the designer. Is it possible, on the contrary, that ethics can also foster creativity in design? The research project Tech-Wise is about a practice oriented approach in ethics; developing tools to engage people with ethical deliberation on the impact of technology. One result of the project is a workshop format for stimulating ethical deliberation that can be tailored to particular technologies and design disciplines. We argue from the results of one particular instance of this workshop format that such an approach to ethics has a fruitful reciprocal effect. It can stimulate creativity in design by enriching the question about the purpose of an innovation, and the other way around enrich ethical reasoning by opening up to often surprising impacts of technologies.
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Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building and maintaining my dear medium, the internet, over the past three decades. To my surprise, the study does not take us to hackathons, Discord channels or the Chaos Computer Congress. Instead, it looks at the visual representation of this techno-figure in mainstream media such as film and television. Maybe that’s something to be proud of. From now on, nerds also have their own pop culture history. In my worldview, Hollywood screenwriters and television directors remain clueless about clumsy cyberculture and have mainly produced caricatures. But that’s not Kohouts take. For her, the representation of nerds in pop culture is key if we want to get a better understanding of the dynamics of mainstreaming digital culture.
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Dit artikel is eerder gepubliccerd in het Nederlands Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Palliatieve Zorg, 2020-16 https://nvtpz.org/ Samenvatting (Nederlands) Het kwaliteitskader Palliatieve zorg beschrijft als standaard: Proactieve zorgplanning wordt tijdig en op passende wijze aan de orde gesteld, bij voorkeur door de hoofdbehandelaar of centrale zorgverlener of door de patiënt en diens naasten. Voor het palliatief adviesteam van een thuiszorgorganisatie in het oosten van Nederland is in drie deelonderzoeken onderzocht hoe verzorgenden en verpleegkundigen (V&V) proactieve zorgplanning in de praktijk vormgeven. In de deelonderzoeken zijn diverse onderzoeksmethoden toegepast: interviews, vragenlijsten en focusgroepen. In totaal hebben 238 V&V deelgenomen: 4 in interviews, 185 door het invullen van een vragenlijst en 49 in focusgroepen. Uit de resultaten blijkt dat V&V afwachtend zijn in het aangaan van gesprekken over wensen en behoeften. Dit gesprek wordt niet structureel gepland bij zorgvragers die in aanmerking komen voor een palliatieve zorgbenadering. Voornamelijk hbo2 -verpleegkundigen spreken vroegtijdig over het lijden (59%) en overlijden (55%) in de toekomst. Mbo3 -verzorgenden niveau 3 stellen deze onderwerpen het minst aan de orde, resp. 11% en 9%. V&V maken tot op heden geen gebruik van gesprekstools, maar alle drie de geselecteerde gesprekshulpen 1) Gesprekswijzer Proactieve zorgplanning, 2) Flowchart en 3) Wensenboekje lijken als set implementeerbaar in de thuiszorgorganisatie. Samenvatting (Engels)2 The quality framework Palliative care describes as standard: Proactive care planning is addressed in a timely and appropriate manner, preferably by the main professional or central care provider or by the patient and his relatives. For the palliative advisory team of a home care organization in the east of the Netherlands, three sub-studies investigated how nurses and certified nurses perform proactive care planning in practice. Various research methods were applied in the sub-studies: interviews, questionnaires and focus groups. A total of 238 nurses and certified nurses participated: 4 in interviews, 185 in a questionnaire and 49 in focus groups. The results show that (certified) nurses are cautious when entering into discussions about wishes and needs. These discussions are not structurally planned by all care recipients who are eligible for a palliative care approach. Especially, bachelor nurses speak early about the suffering (59%) and death (55%) in the future, whereas certified nurses level 3 addressing these subjects the least, resp. 11% and 9%. Up to now, (certified) nurses do not use conversation aids. All three selected conversation aids by this care organization 1) Conversation guide Proactive care planning, 2) Flowchart and 3) Wish booklet seem to be able to implement as a set
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