BOTENSTOFF #5 Ethics and Design
BOTENSTOFF is a publication of the design department of the Hochschule Niederrhein and is produced under the aegis of various professors as a project assignment in the studies.
In the Master's Degree programme in Design, topics on morals, responsibility, attitude, action and aesthetics are taught in different teaching formats in the subject 'Ethics'. Exhibitions, symposia and this publication have been created in the process. In the present messenger 'Ethics and Design' some selected original texts are republished, which deal exemplarily with decisive steps of the design process and the connection with moral thinking. Master students dealt with the texts in a team and commented on them.
Project management: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Plüm
Original texts from
 Michael Braungart: Redifining Green. A New Definition of Quality Empowers the Next Wave of Design.
 Lucius Burckhardt: Design is Invisible. Design, Society & Pedagogy
 Frederic C. Erasmus: No No Position. The designer, the designer, the design.
 Boris Groys: The compulsory self-design
 Ludger Heidbrink: Life after progress. On the sustainable design of the future.
 Tom Holert: Design and nervousness.
 Klaus Krippendorf: The semantic turn. A new foundation course for design.
 Planning and Democracy, an interview with Tomás Maldonado by Jesko Fezer
 Ursula Tischner: Eco Design, Problem Solving instead of Greenwashing
 Wolfgang Ulrich: Philosophers have only ever interpreted the world differently - do product designers change it too?
We thank the authors and publishers for reprint permissions.
Issue 5, 2018
 Format 19 x 25.5 cm
 172 pages
 Digital printing
 Softcover
Price: 12 €, plus shipping