Welcome!
This is a community resource for the study and implementation of values in design (VID) reflecting a broad spectrum of theories, methodologies and disciplinary approaches. We invite contributions from researchers, practitioners, and public interest advocates. If you have news, projects, or events you would like to see featured, we would love to include them. Please come back often and watch the site grow!
News and Events |
Spotlight |
Workshop on Values|Making|Critique|Design Feb. 7 in Totonto Historically, the relationship between values and technology has been explored only after a tool has been designed and released "into the wild." This workshop seeks to upend this customary timetable by providing space for participants to discuss, explore, and tangibly create an understanding of values and technology at the beginning of the design process. Daedalus Special Issue: Forthcoming in Daedalus 140:4, Fall 2011, a special issue of Daedalus on the Internet as a public commons, edited by David Clark. The issue will focus heavily on the role of values online, and will include contributions from Jean Camp, Yochai Benkler, Deidre Mulligan, Helen Nissenbaum, and others. |
Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Michael Zimmer is a privacy scholar in the School of Information at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His blog is an invaluable resource on issues related to Values in Design, information ethics, privacy, and new media. Envisioning Cards, University of Washington Envisioning Cards are are tools designed to evoke consideration and discussion of long-term evolving use within the context of design practice as it spans across time, becomes pervasive throughout society, affects the lives of different stakeholders, and raises issues that touch human values. The Values-in-Design Council is a multi-disciplinary team of experts in values-in-design who will work alongside the four recipients of the National Science Foundation's Future Internet Architecture Initiative (FIA) large project grants. |
Videos |
Calendar |
|
