like minds...

there was a recent event hosted (barbican debate) on ethics, a summary 
article:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/cameron-sinclair-barbican-debate.php

and an article by one of the main organizers cameron sinclair, co-
founder of architecture for humanity

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cameron-sinclair/the-architects-dilemma-th_b_185031.html

other links of interest:

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/ruralstudio/ http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/cameron_sinclair_on_open_source_architecture.html http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/28

ethics prep

ETHICS As students of architecture, our positions on history, technology, materiality, usership, and epistemology come to dictate our particular style and practice. Within the act of translation from idea into building, these positions become political. Given the inherently social character of our discipline, what are the ethical implications of this mode of production? What does it mean to be ethical? How are architects ethical (or not) at the level of design? How can architects be more ethical – should they be? SUGGESTED READINGS 01 Inmediasres, David Bell. (VIA 10: Ethics and Architecture) * please post/email if you would like a pdf of this article! (not able to attach it here) 02 “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, Peter Singer. (Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 1) http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972----.htm

Convivium 3: Ethics