<p>In the Human Practises (HP) part of the project, our team aimed to assess the impact of our project on the world. We considered the environmental, social and economic impact. Since our idea is bold and revolutionary and uses synthetic biology in agriculture, it was very important to us to shape our design in a responsible way and think of all the potential risks in case our technology was to be implemented in society. Hence, we applied the notions of Value Sensitive Design and conducted stakeholder interviews.</p>
<p>In the Human Practises (HP) part of the project, our team aimed to assess the impact of our project on the world. We considered the environmental, social and economic impact. Since our idea is bold and revolutionary and uses synthetic biology in agriculture, it was</strong> important to us to shape our design in a responsible way and think of all the potential risks in case our technology was to be implemented in society.</strong> Hence, we applied the notions of Value Sensitive Design through stakeholder interviews.</p>
<p>We started by using the Value-Sensitive Design (VSD) approach. [1] We chose this approach because it helped us <strong>to identify our project in relationship to problems and values and build a discourse around what these values mean between team members</strong> and stakeholders, and how to carry out a responsible approach.[1]This entailed thoroughly anticipating both positive and negative impacts of our project and thinking of security or ethical, social and legal problems created by its potential application. </p>
<p>We started by using the</strong> Value-Sensitive Design (VSD)</strong> approach because it helped us identify our project in relation to problems and values. It also facilitated a discourse between team members and stakeholders about the meaning of these values in our project and how to carry out a responsible approach.[1]This entailed thoroughly anticipating both positive and negative impacts of our project and thinking of safety and security and the ethical and social problems created by its potential application. </p>
<p>The steps of our HP and Integrated HP approach, based on the VSD analysis, is shown in Figure 1. The VSD consists of three main phases namely conceptual, empirical and technical part. We applied these stages in our HP work. In the conceptual part we assessed who are the stakeholders impacted by our idea and what values are at relevance. This way, we gained a better understanding of whom to engage with and what questions we wanted to ask The empirical part consisted of reaching out to some of these stakeholders with different backgrounds, and to experts that could help us think about the different fields of impacts mentioned before. During the technical part we integrated all gathered information from the conceptual and empirical parts to minimise potential risks associated with our project and to come up with alternative approaches. This also meant that we had to make compromises between conflicting design choices. </p>
