Ethical sensibilities are constantly enacted in design practice. As we move towards pluralistic ways of designing, different ethical sensibilities increasingly merge, diverge, and diffract. It becomes vital to attend to the implicit ethics that imbue design practice to envision alternative practices and generative epistemics for the interaction design discipline. My research develops felt ethics - an attitude of somatic, critical, and reflective attentiveness towards how our ethical sensibilities are engaged in design. I develop an understanding of ethical sensibilities as fundamentally relational and co-constitutional; shaped by factors such as our relationships with others, society, culture, politics, technologies, and materials. I discuss two ongoing project involving autonomous systems, using choreographic methods to explore ethical assumptions embedded in industrial robots and then reimagining such ethics using research through design. I conclude with open questions for the DIS 2024 Doctoral Consortium concerning the relation-making potential and resonance of felt ethics with other design practices.
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