Ethical Tension Cards: Ethics Tool

‘‘Ethical-Dilemma/ Tension Cards’’ are elicitation tools to engage individual practitioners to reflect on their present or past ethical dilemmas as well as categorize them using the Tension Cards Categorization Worksheet.

According to the A.E.I.O.yoU model (more details to come), this toolkit seeks to describe and create awareness of ethical dilemmas and tensions faced by practitioners (Individual, yoU), as they perceive others (O) and during interactions (I) among the practitioners, at the practitioner level.

STEPS

• Familiarize yourself with Ethical Dilemmas/Tensions cards (on the other sheet/board).

• Filter and position each Ethical Dilemma/Tension card based on your everyday work in your organization on the Dilemma/Tensions Categorization worksheet. You can also add your own ethical dilemmas to the list.

• Reflect and/or Share stories about instances from your previous or current experiences to elaborate and narrate on dilemmas you often face.

  • [Extension] Refer to Dilemma Postcards (another toolkit) to extend sharing your stories.

• Express and ideate on what kinds of support you needed or need to solve the dilemmas/tensions.

Tools in the whole toolkit: 

• Trace the Ethical Complexity (“I want to see my ethical position within my organization map.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/trace-the-ethical-complexity-ethics-tool/

• Ethical Tension Cards (“I want to filter ethical tensions I have been facing in my everyday design work.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/filter-ethical-tensions-ethics-tool/

• Dilemma Postcards (“I want to share my story around some ethical dilemmas I faced in my workplace.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/dilemma-postcards-ethics-tools/

• Methods-Resonance Heuristics (“I want to evaluate a method I want to use to build ethical design products.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/method-resonance-heurisitics-ethics-tool/