Four Design Links is a review of the design- and ethics-related stories we've been reading online this week. This week: questioning humanitarian design, patterns for influencing behavior, the ethics of overdraft fees, and a video of a pay-bench.
1. Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?
A thought-provoking essay from Bruce Nussbaum over at Fast Company Design:
Do designers need to better see themselves through the eyes of the local professional and business classes who believe their countries are rising as the U.S. and Europe fall and wonder who, in the end, has the right answers? Might Indian, Brazilian and African designers have important design lessons to teach Western designers?
And finally, one last question: why are we only doing humanitarian design in Asia and Africa and not Native American reservations or rural areas, where standards of education, water and health match the very worst overseas?
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Nick — Jul 22, 2010
Four ethics links is a review of recent stories in applied ethics. This week: The Ethics of Ethisphere, The Banks, War Journalism, Yelp, and Planetary Exploration and Colonization.
In wake of crisis, public eyes corporate ethics - Reuters
Some of the best-known U.S. companies, including General Electric, Gap and Google, made The Ethisphere Institute's 2010 ranking of the 100 most ethical companies (read our worries about these rankings here) , released on Monday. But, after a government bailout of the U.S. financial system, no Wall Street banks were represented for a second straight year.
We quote Reuters, who sounds like they're quoting us:
Top ethics officials at several major U.S. companies said honest business practices are critical after a brutal downturn that pushed the U.S. jobless rate as high as 10 percent, savaged retirement savings and home values and left many Americans less trustful of big business.
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Jean-Francois Millet, Gleaners
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Paul — Apr 12, 2010
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