Ethics

FUTURE AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY

Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen

KEY READINGS 

• Harriss, H., Hyde, R., Marcaccio, R. (editors), Architects after Architecture Alternative Pathways for Practice, Routledge

• Tucker, E., A New Concept for Good Architecture: Embodied Justice - Metropolis, https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/embodied-justice-2021

• Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., Designing for the Climate Emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, RIBA

INSPIRATIONAL BUILT EXAMPLES

• TYIN Architects – Cassia Coop Training Centre, Kerinchi, Indonesia

• MASS Design Group – Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICE), Gashora, Rwanda

• Hopkins Architects, Living Planet Centre, WWF Headquarters, UK

ETHICS

As architects we have the moral responsibility to work beyond the brief and be critical about clients’ wishes or aspirations which might perpetuate (social, spatial or climate) injustices. To take into consideration international justice & intergenerational ethics you should commit to social, spatial and climate justice. To do this, design for resilience, adaptability and inclusivity.To take in consideration human and non-human relationships, each project should commit to restorative and regenerative design, centred around the principles of radical inclusivity, biophilia and topophilia.