Trace the Ethical Complexity-EthicsTool

"Tracing the Complexity" is a mapping toolkit that allows practitioners to map an ecological complexity model consisting of various individual, organizational, or societal factors using a toolkit provided to them.

This activity seeks to describe the ethical responsibility of practitioners at the ecological (E) level in the A.E.I.O.YOU model.

STEPS

• Familiarize yourself with model components envision all your ecological factors such as roles, aspects, processes, bodies, relational verbs, etc.

• Map all the relevant model components to create a version of a complexity model based on your everyday work in your organization on the worksheet (on the right).

• Identify verbs as required to represent on the arrows in your mapping to narrate story behind your mapping.

Once you finish,

• Mark where most ethics-related: knowledge lies (in Green), decision making lies (in Pink), tensions occur (in Blue), and support is needed (in Red).

• Reflect on the outcomes from the previous steps and think about some changes to your current design practice.

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/