AWTP

There were a num­ber of threads of dis­cus­sion in this area that came from dis­cuss­ing the idea of the uni­on or a stand­ard­ised body. We struggled with (and prob­ably will through this exer­cise) to identi­fy the one area that would make for good eth­ic­al stand­ing in design. For Ben this was ‘hon­esty’. I find this really inter­est­ing as I com­pletely agree in eth­ic­al terms, how­ever I can­not see how this would ever be pos­sible when ‘design’ by its very nature is sub­ject­ive and a uni­ver­sally accep­ted under­stand­ing of images/culture would be needed.

Designers have the role of form­ing lan­guage at a visu­al level and so a social respons­ib­il­ity for that con­tent. This respons­ib­il­ity is com­poun­ded by the free access to media enables by every­one. The example giv­en by the group was that we all have access to ‘Meine Kampf’. The ques­tion was should we have access to it and if so does it assume, should it assume that we are respons­ible in our con­sump­tion of it?