Course: Philosophy of Technology and Design: Shaping the Relations Between Humans and Technologies

In this video we introduce you to the idea that we can start “moralising things”. Here you can read more about the different approaches to do that. Nudging In their …

In 1995, Dutch philosopher Hans Achterhuis published an article titled ‘The moralization of devices’ (Achterhuis 1995). In order to end the constant moralising in the environmental discussion, Achterhuis proposed to …

The second level at which designers can incorporate mediation in their work, is the level of ‘mediation assessment’. Here, mediations are not only anticipated but also explicitly evaluated. This evaluation, …

In this video we explain how one could start moralising things. I aimed to emphasise that we are fundamentally mediated beings; technologies always mediate us. The theory of mediation – …

In this video we explain that technological mediations have an impact on how we act. This makes technological artefacts at least ethically significant. But what does it mean to mediate …

In order to analyse the mediating roles that SPENCER plays, we can guide our imagination along the various relations humans can have with it, and along the implications of these …

In STEP 2.3 – What kind of relationship can you have with a social robot? Vanessa Evers introduced you to social robotics afterwhich you discussed what kind of relationship you …

This animation provides you with a summary of what you learned so far about how we could understand human-technology relations. The phenomenological approach helps us to overcome the radical split …

In this article we take a closer look at Latour’s discussion of the example of guns. Subject-object distinction Just like Don Ihde, Latour’s work aims to overcome the separation of …

In this video we zoom-in on the dimension of practices. Like with the dimension of perception, we we can differentiate between two different kinds: micro-practices and macro-practices. The example the …

In this article we will take a closer look at the four different relations distinguished by Don Ihde. What role does technology play in everyday human experience? How do technological …

In this video we explain once more that we can analyse the mediation relation in two dimensions. When we zoom-in on the dimension of perception Ihde shows that we can …