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The design of new products, public utilities, and the built environment is traditionally seen as a process in which the moral values of users and society hardly play a role. The traditional view is that design is a technical and value-neutral task of developing artifacts that meet functional requirements formulated by clients and users. These clients and users may have their own moral and societal agendas, yet for engineers, these are just externalities to the design process. An entrenched view on architecture is that “star” architects and designers somehow manage to realize their aesthetic and social goals in their design, thus imposing their values rather than allowing users and society to obtain buildings and artifacts that meet user and societal values.
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van den Hoven, J., Vermaas, P.E., van de Poel, I. (2015). Design for Values: An Introduction. In: van den Hoven, J., Vermaas, P., van de Poel, I. (eds) Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6970-0_40
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