The Capability Approach, Technology and Design

1. The Capability Approach, Technology and Design: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Ilse Oosterlaken

2. Human Capabilities and Technology
Jeroen Hoven

3. Liberation from/Liberation within: Examining One Laptop per Child with Amartya Sen and Bruno Latour
Kim Kullman, Nick Lee

4. Evaluating Emerging ICTs: A Critical Capability Approach of Technology
Yingqin Zheng, Bernd Carsten Stahl

5. “How I Learned to Love the Robot”: Capabilities, Information Technologies, and Elderly Care
Mark Coeckelbergh

6. Towards a Sustainable Synergy: End-Use Energy Planning, Development as Freedom, Inclusive Institutions and Democratic Technics
Manu V. Mathai

7. Marrying the Capability Approach, Appropriate Technology and STS: The Case of Podcasting Devices in Zimbabwe
Ilse Oosterlaken, David J. Grimshaw, Pim Janssen

8. From Individuality to Collectivity: The Challenges for Technology-Oriented Development Projects
Álvaro Fernández-Baldor, Andrés Hueso, Alejandra Boni

9. Technology Choice in Aid-Assisted Parliamentary Strengthening Projects in Developing Countries: A Capability Approach
Malik Aleem Ahmed

10. Design, Risk and Capabilities
Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni

11. Re-conceptualizing Design Through the Capability Approach
Crighton Nichols, Andy Dong

12. Processes for Just Products: The Capability Space of Participatory Design
Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Camillo Boano

13. Inappropriate Artefact, Unjust Design? Human Diversity as a Key Concern in the Capability Approach and Inclusive Design
Ilse Oosterlaken

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Engineering Design, Ethics, Interdisciplinary Studies