Design Refusal as Public Interest Technology
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Talk created for the virtual A Better Tech: Public Interest Technology Convention & Career Fair in October 2021. Link to video of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWJ9a0A4-4&t=2407s
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- 1. Design Refusal as Public Interest Technology Erhardt Graeff / Shreya Chowdhary Olin College of Engineering A Better Tech // October 2021
- 4. Michael DeForge for The New York Times Logic Magazine / Science for the People
- 6. Ask Yourself What are my values? What are my red lines? How do I define my professional responsibility? Where should my responsibility start? Where should it end?
- 7. With Projects, Ask... Are we open to the possibility that the best approach is to not design anything at all? What is the challenge we are trying to address? Who had a meaningful say in defining that challenge? Who didn't have a say but should have? What are their values? Who has too much of a say over how we frame this? What are their values?
- 8. With Projects, Ask What systems of help or harm will this design be a part of? How do they impact the potential outcomes of this technology? What are the worst case scenarios after deployment? Do these actually cover the worst case scenarios for all stakeholders? Whose worst case scenarios are you okay with the possibility of? Would they agree?
- 9. Design Refusal as Public Interest Technology Erhardt Graeff egraeff@olin.edu @erhardt Shreya Chowdhary schowdhary@olin.edu @shreyasunshine6