Output details
16 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Leeds Beckett University
Chapter title
Architecture and Economy : the Ethics of Empowerment.
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Papasotiriou
Book title
AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics
ISBN of book
978-960-491-026-7
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
At the end of 20th century, issues of homelessness and migration emerged as privileged fields in which the discipline of architecture encounters the harshness of the sociopolitical order. Architects quickly adopted an ethically responsible role by becoming ‘enablers’ who design new ‘community’ situations to foster the development of new forms of participation in which everyone is potentially included. The ‘ethics of empowerment’ was thus extracted out of the ’70 ‘reclaim of rights’ political context, to support the formation of an ‘ethical community’. What would be a potential relation between architecture and economy that might currently shape a different ethics?
