The Good Guide to Creative Practice

The Good Guide is an initiative aimed at equipping students of creative arts, design, media, and technology with the knowledge and tools to embrace ethical and inclusive practices in their work. At its essence, The Good Guide promotes sustainability, equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), and harnessing technology for positive impact. The objective is straightforward: to minimise harm in creative pursuits and actively contribute to positive change.

Navigating concepts such as sustainability, EDI, and tech for good can be daunting. This is where The Good Guide comes into play. It is an introductory handbook tailored to provide clear explanations of these complex topics and offer basic principles to aid understanding.

Below are a list of links to useful information, explainer videos and animations, as well as toolkits and other helpful materials relating to the three key themes of The Good Guide. We will be adding more! You will find a more larger list in the digital version of The Good Guide that you can download at the end of the page.

• Universal Design Principles
• Design for Public Services
• IADT Equality Diversity Inclusion resources
• IADT Ethics Policy

• Climate Change – the facts in 4 minutes by David Attenborrough
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Circular Economy – video explainer by the Ellen Mc Arthur Foundation
• Circular Design Guide
• Irish Government Circular Strategy
• IADT Climate Action Roadmap

• Truth, trust and hope | Nobel Prize Summit 2023 (YouTube Playlist)
• How better tech could protect us from distraction? by Tristan Harris, Technology Ethicist, Centre for Humane Technology
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) & IADT
• IADT Data Protection Policy
• Is Our Attention Safe?
• Can VR help create empathy around climate change? TED Talk with Jeremy Bailenson
• This Climate does not Exist | AI-driven experience based on empathy, research led by Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal
• Kate Crawford: A Leading Scholar and Conscience for A.I. Ground Truths Podcast with Eric Topol
• AI Now | AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and policy research on artificial intelligence
• A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets by Sarah Ciston, part of the Knowing Machines research project
• Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford, The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
• Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret by Kate Crawford

Below is a carefully curated selection of books designed to provide insightful information, in-depth explorations, and provoking ideas on the key themes covered in The Good Guide. These recommendations span various genres and formats, from instructional manuals to dictionaries, and are tailored to deepen your understanding.

• Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
• Design Justice by Sasha Costanza Chock
• Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta
• Mismatch How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
• Handbook of Tyranny by Theo Deutinger

This student fellowship research project, An Ethical Guide for Sustainable and Inclusive Creative Practice for Students of Creative Arts, Design & Media Technologies was funded by the National Technological University Transformation for Resilience and Recovery (N-TUTTOR) initiative.

N-TUTTOR is an innovative collaboration across the technological higher education sector in Ireland comprising of seven partners: Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), IADT, Munster Technological University (MTU), South Eastern University (SETU), Technological University Dublin (TUD), Technological University at the Shannon (TUS).

N-TUTTOR aims to transform the student experience, empower learners, develop staff capabilities and implement sustainable digital ecosystems in technological higher education in Ireland.