Ethics in/of/for Design

As a Special Interest Group, we frame design ethics as an invitation to care and argue against reducing it to a methodology, framework, checklist, toolkit, or an afterthought. This broad framing highlights that ‘ethics’ can carry multiple meanings in different contexts and can be approached from various theoretical perspectives. Consequently, this track addresses the need for a nuanced and reflexive discussion on how ethics and design are intertwined. Our track attracted 44 submissions, 17 of which have been accepted through a double-blind peer-review process. We clustered these submissions according to the three main themes in our track title: Ethics in / of / for Design. Most of the submissions help address the question: How to nurture ethical awareness and accountability in design practices? Together, these submissions stimu- late looking back with critical historical awareness, while also looking forward with cautious optimism.