디자인을 향한 윤리적 접근에 관한 고찰

Criticism against the materialism-oriented society increased concerns for ethic. Now, people pay attention to the ethical consumption and the consumption value, which continuously expands to the field of design. Of course, ethical introspection within design field has been kept for quite a long time. Discussion about designer’s social responsibility starting with Victor Papanek’s ‘Design for real world’ led to expansion of Green Design, Sustainable Design, Social Design, Slow Design, and 착한디자인 concepts. The perspective on consumption was changed to value orientation after 2000, which design concepts mentioned above have become a social issues and new cultural paradigm. However, these kinds of interests from the outside tend to precedently restrict all the design activities with somewhat one-sided judgement. In Korea, design field itself does focus on designer’s social sense of responsibility and morality. Thus, this research critically considers the concept of design ethics which is appealing recently and understands its possible threat. With this, I would like to broaden the diverse values that design with ethical perspective has. Also, it contains various perspectives of ethics that could be theoretical foundation of ethics for design. Methodology used is the literature review regarding precedent study and relevant discussion associated with ethical perspective of design. Researcher has to pay special attention to the fact that design and designer should not be confined in social moral standard. Therefore, this research has an academic significance that modifies and improves design trend in ethical perspective so far. This paper is expected to work as a theoretical base for practical study in ethical design.