On Doing Good //////////////////////////

Talk on ethics and design given at Domus Academy on October 8th 2024.

1. On
Doing
Good
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

2. design + tech+ climate

3. design + public service+ ethics

4. 4
‘leave no trace’ is an
ambition

5. more is more

6. more is more

7. not everyone takes action

8. not everyone should

9. we are the 1%

10. bad business decisions become
bad environmental decisions

11. bad business decisions become
bad environmental decisions

12. bad business decisions become
legacy hardware

13. bad tech decisions become
bad user experiences

14. Now what?

15. develop a practice

16. 16
know your history

17. develop a critical
perspective

18. try other tools

19. help people make sense
of complexity

20. assess the real risks

21. Achieving goals
Being inspired
Being safe and well
Belonging to a group
Connecting with
others
Exploring the World
Expressing oneself
Feeling impactful
Growing myself
Having autonomy
Having stability
Pursuing Pleasure
Receiving recognition
Understanding
myself
consider other dimensions
of life

22. consider your limits

23. consider your limits

24. We can never go home again,
and we need to fashion narrative
forms able to catch the full
complexities of this
collective predicament.
-Stuart Hall

25. Invent, draw and describe
to us in 2 minutes the least
ethical product you can
think of (without hurting
women or children).

26. Take one of your
neighbour’s projects and
turn it into the most ethical
product you can.
Draw and describe it to us
in 2 minutes.

27. @alexdifficultsurname on insta
@iotwatch on twitter