From microcosm to macrocosm, ecodesign, green design, environmental design, and triple bottom line are quickly becoming more than just catchy phrases that describe touchy-feely trends. Increases in climate uncertainty and energy costs as well as food, water, and services insecurity, are just a few of the challenges driving the growing demand for sustainable design outcomes. Sustainability and Design Ethics provides a systematic value analysis that makes a reasoned argument about the rethinking of current design methods and the values and ethics which guide them.
不管從宏觀層面還是微觀層面，生態設計、綠色設計、環境設計和可持續性三重底線都越來越引人注目。氣候的不確定性與能源成本越來越大，食品、水和服務也越來越不安全，這一切使得人們對可持續設計的需求越來越多，《可持續性與設計倫理》一書分析了繫統價值，反思了人們現在所遵循的設計方法、設計價值觀和設計倫理，進而提出合理的觀點。
Providing context and language, this book delineates the ideas and principles that lie at the foundation of a variety of codes of ethics, and then critically analyzes existing published codes and the practices that stem from them. It takes a practical approach, discussing applied ethics, and relies upon an understanding of the moral reasoning that supports the ideas and professionalism, and an ethical standard of care. Drawing on the author’s experience as a design professional and his study of business ethics, this book supplies a detailed exposition of the underlying ethical reasoning involved in the challenges confronted by contemporary design professionals. This information can then be distilled into sustainable practices and the corresponding ethics.
本書描述了許多倫理準則所包含的基本理念和原則，並對由此衍生的現存倫理準則和做法進行了批判性分析。本書以實用方法討論應用倫理學，依托道德推理和倫理關注標準。憑借作者自身作為設計專業人士的經驗以及對商業倫理學的研究，本書詳細闡述了當代設計專業人士所面臨的挑戰中涉及到的基本倫理推理。這些內容可以提煉為可持續實踐和相應的倫理觀。
Sustainability requires design professional to expand the considerations of design beyond the traditional ethical points of view and to provide a balanced analysis of how a sustainable standard of care might be composed. While other books might cover the environment and design, professional ethics are addressed as an afterthought in most, if at all. And no other book available explores sustainability from a designer’s perspective. Examining present and future issues facing practitioners, the book provides a context for the values and ethics necessary for sustainable development design.
可持續設計需要設計專業人士考慮得更長遠，超傳統的倫理觀，並均衡各種情況，分析如何纔能達到可持續的關注標準。盡管其他的書籍也論述了環境與設計，但都很少設計職業倫理的層面；即使有所涉及，也僅僅是從後知後覺的角度看待問題。除了本書，其他沒有哪一本書是從設計師的角度探討可持續性的問題。本書對專業人士當前和未來所面臨的問題進行了研究，為設計的可持續發展所需的價值觀和倫理觀提供了背景依托。
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