Evil intent and design responsibility

Kemper, Bart

doi:10.1007/s11948-004-0026-4

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“…But Mitcham and Holbrook (2006) point out that the 'going wrong' can also be driven by 'evil' intent, for example through acts of terrorism. They illustrate this by pointing to examples given by Kemper (2004) such as the use of fertilizers used in car bombs. But even more mundane products have their initial purposes displaced once in the hands of consumers.…”

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Critiquing Design: Perspectives and World Views on Design and Design and Technology Education, for the Common Good

Stables

2017

Contemporary Issues in Technology Education

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This chapter critiques design and design practices from historic, social, cultural and sustainable perspectives as a basis for opening up a broader perspective on the ways design and designing are seen within mainstream Design and Technology education in schools. The chapter is divided into four broad sections. The first section explores the ways that design practioners, theorists and historians critique past and present practices of design from within the profession. This is followed by an outlining of approaches that some designers have taken to using design itself as a way of critiquing society and culture. The focus then turns to Design and Technology education and highlights concerns that have been identified both at school and higher education level. Finally, consideration is given to examples that illustrate positive approaches to bringing broader and more critical approaches to Design and Technology in classrooms, including ways that are developed in detail in further chapters in this book.

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Section: Utopian and Dystopian Views Of Designmentioning

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Critiquing Design: Perspectives and World Views on Design and Design and Technology Education, for the Common Good

Stables

2017

Contemporary Issues in Technology Education

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“…They represent an ethical baseline for design due diligence. These methodologies are based on engineering fundamentals while incorporating other considerations such as acceptable design margins, construction tolerances, material variations, and other practice-based factors 2 .…”

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Misapplication of Pressure Vessel Codes in Forensic Applications

Kemper¹

2021

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Engineering codes are a key method to guide designs to safe and reliable outcomes. Many such codes have prescribed calculations where the user provides specific inputs in a series of calculations, often using charts or tables, to get specific outputs. The design margins, units, and underlying theory are not always apparent. Engineering codes may not be suitable for reverse engineering an incident or providing a failure prediction. This article examines a criminal negligence case in which an initial forensic analysis incorrectly applied the ASME Pressure Vessel Code to use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of a failed pressure vessel section. The flaws in the original analysis were revealed by applying reverse engineering using conventional stress calculations and understanding basic material science. This emphasizes the need to understand the underlying theories with both engineering codes and numerical modeling. Subsequent FEA provided an accurate analysis report that was successfully used in court. These same methods can be applied to many other engineering codes and standards.

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“…Does it include protection against malevolent use of the object by criminals or terrorists? (Kemper 2004) The prevention of long-term health effects? The prevention of damage to the environment?…”

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Safe Design

Hansson¹

2006

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

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Safety is an essential ethical requirement in engineering design. Strategies for safe design are used not only to reduce estimated probabilities of injuries but also to cope with hazards and eventualities that cannot be assigned meaningful probabilities. The notion of safe design has important ethical dimensions, such as that of determining the responsibility that a designer has for future uses (and misuses) of the designed object.

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Evil intent and design responsibility

Cited by 7 publications

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Critiquing Design: Perspectives and World Views on Design and Design and Technology Education, for the Common Good

Critiquing Design: Perspectives and World Views on Design and Design and Technology Education, for the Common Good

Misapplication of Pressure Vessel Codes in Forensic Applications

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