Facilitated Workshops exploring publics perceptions of Human Enhancement

Series of facilitated workshops using Participatory Design methods to ascertain the response of a non-specialist audience to the development of HEt, driven by the belief that those who are affected by a technology have reason to be involved in its’ design. The workshop methodology looks for consistent responses (if any) when the workshop type, issue addressed, HEt technology, and audience are different, indicating which issues are important to the publics. The four facilitated workshops are developed in response to one, or more, of the issues in the ‘Ethics Grid’ about different speculative HEt from the ‘Body Schematic’ diagram. ​ Analysis of the workshops, individually and then as a group, provided insight into the issues and benefits of HEt as perceived by a variety of publics – recognising that the insights/audiences are potentially biased as the events were predominantly art/science/future themed, and in a Western setting.