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EPFL Press2024

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Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...

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SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

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WILEY2021

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The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

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Diversity-aware platform design is a paradigm that responds to the ethical challenges of existing social media platforms. Available platforms have been criticized for minimizing users' autonomy, marginalizing minorities, and exploiting users' data for prof ...

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