Samenvatting

In this chapter, we will elaborate on how philosophy and design can meet by way of the application of tools from the philosophy of technology in the practice of design. We will discuss how this meeting may be mutually beneficial and how it may improve the practice of designing as well as philosophical thinking about technology and design.

We consider that the application of philosophical tools in design means a “practical turn” in the philosophy of technology and design (Eggink and Dorrestijn 2018a). We see this as a further development of the so-called “empirical turn” (Achterhuis 2001; Verbeek 2005), which was a turn toward case studies about innovation, implementation, and use of concrete technologies. Making the philosophy of technology practical in design is, therefore, our answer to the question: “What comes after the technology turn?”