178th Dies Symposium - Design for values

New technologies and designs will lead to successful new breakthroughs when they are designed for the moral and social values people hold. This requires making design choices with explicit reference to and for reasons of moral and social values throughout the entire design and engineering process of technologies, products, services, spaces and systems. The Delft Design for Values Institute aims at offering tools and methods to designers and engineers for strengthening this practice, and conducts and stimulates research on how to explicitly design for values. Session themes At the symposium two core research pillars of the institute are placed central: Value Dynamics – how to design for values that change over time; Value Conflicts – how to deal with the frictions that emerge between two or more values within design and engineering processes. The symposium will comprise keynote speeches from two honorary doctors, as well as interactive sessions in which TUD researchers share and discuss their work with the honorary doctors and the audience. The event will encompass what it means to design for values, and investigate how to address the urgent need for engineers and designers to systematically and critically reflect on the social impact of their designs and technologies.