Interventions

How can we create a better more ethical future? The main goal of VIRT-EU has been to identify pivot points in the design and development of connected technologies as opportunities for intervention. Here you will find our insights and ideas in our stories, workshops and discussion scripts that we have designed to help people convene difficult conversations about ethics. Use the filter function below to locate the content you might find useful. 

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What does having new means of surveillance, visibility and knowing through IoT devices means for our close relationships?

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Confront present & future ethical challenges. The Ethical Stack is a series of tools to support creators of new connected technology to reflect on their product’s ethical and social impacts.

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Building a start-up is not an easy undertaking. It comes with many unknowns and many uncertainties. What if things go wrong?

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The post is the second of a two-part series looking at the ethical stakes of different technical elements that make up the Internet of Things (IoT).

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This essay is part of the The State of Responsible IoT 2019 report edited by Andrea Krajewski and Max Krüger and produced by ThingsCon.

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How to talk about ethics? workshop was designed to involve a broader audience at events that bring together technology developers and people from outside the technical world.

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How should we approach the role of developers and innovators of new technologies? A brief look into the recent coverage of technology news...

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VIRT-EU’s immersive ethical installation joins 483 projects in the FastCompany 2019 Innovation by Design Awards.

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Concepts of privacy and data leakage themselves are too abstract to have enough relevance in daily practice.

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As part of our research, we have conducted multi-site ethnographic fieldwork with developers, designers and entrepreneurs...

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The idea of surveilling our loved ones is as old as human relationships, so it is no surprise that new technologies get put to that sort of use.

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Although data ethics is hugely important, focusing on data only might limit the kind of questions we ask.

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