About
Cards have a physical, aesthetic and interactive appeal that enables and encourages engagement and discussion, both in person and online. Card- based tools can be used flexibly in varied ways in quick and more in-depth contexts both individually and with groups of differing sizes. They break down complex issues into individual cards to prompt discussion and engagement, providing a narrative infrastructure and a set of appropriate anchors with interpretive flexibility for discussing complex topics. They have a physical tactile, appeal. People like to hold them sort them and deal them with their physical nature lending themselves to promoting discussion and interaction and physical sorting and arrangement to prioritise, rank and sort issues amongst other activities. Practical tools for bringing wider values into research and innovation are lacking. These cards seek to help address this gap, by supporting engagement with element of responsibility such as legal and ethical concepts through their translation into a more accessible form.
The Responsible Innovation Prompts and Practice cards introduce Responsible Innovation and provide a series of ‘prompts’ and ideas for implementing it in ‘practice’ in research work.
The Moral-It cards encourage engagement with ethical questions in relation to the development of technology particularly that using personal data. They are intended to help integrate ‘ethics by design’ into the development of technology.
The Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) cards are intended to help people engage with questions of inclusivity in relation to their (research) work, such as How inclusive is my work? Who might it include or exclude and how? and how does EDI relate to me and my work.
