Odpowiedzialny dizajn : etyka i problem potrzeby

Abstract

The article presents the idea of responsible design. The main issue is the question about an element, which decides if certain requirements made by a specific group of recipients are necessary or not. May it be a category of a need? In order to answer these questions, the author names five concepts hidden behind the term design, outlines a brief history of the notion of the responsible design, points out its essential element, that is its opposition towards the commercial design and finally reaches the paradox inscribed in the responsible designing. The paradox consists in that together with the negation of the commercial designing (which explicitly separates the function of an object from its external appearance), the responsible designing is deprived of a measure which would allow to distinguish the satisfaction of needs by specific functions of objects from the remaining needs of the receivers