Applying ethics in a complex piloting context

With the increasing culture of applying piloting as part of technology innovation, the need for understanding its societal implications is becoming more crucial. In this paper, we introduce a case in point – a Horizon Europe funded project with social innovation and technology-based piloting at its core – and explore its ethical dimensions. Drawing on a mixed-method approach, we argue that a promising avenue for refining our analysis on ethics would benefit from analyzing the context as a “bundle of logics”. With the aim of understanding better the power relations, tensions and agencies pivotal to negotiating and embedding ethics across processes, we consider utilizing a framework of “design logics” to the data.