-----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Fahey <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Oct 7, 2013 10:44 am Subject: [AE] Fwd: 2014 CfP: Autonomy Reconsidered: Ethics in Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Hello: Can the call for papers below be added to your website? Would be very much appreciated. The web link to the call is here:B http://isparchitecture.com/events/call-for-papers. Thanks, Carolyn On behalf of the ISPA Business Group and the Conference Organization Team, we are very pleased to announce the 2014 International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture Conference.B To register for the conference, to submit an abstract, and keep up with the latest conference updates we invite you to register on the society website. We warmly invite your abstract submissions and look forward to meeting you at the conference. Please do forward this call for papers. Sincerely, Carolyn Fahey & Stefan Koller B B CALL FOR PAPERS: B Contemporary philosophy and architecture discourse alike marginalize the ethical dimension of architecture. B Yet, it seems that the ethical dimension in both architecture philosophy has been compromised because both disciplines have not established a clear interdisciplinary understanding of autonomy. Together, and in service to both fields of study, we must reconsider what autonomy means for both architecture and philosophy, or rather, for architecture philosophy.B B Without consideration to design intent, societal (at times, utopian) agendas and programs, architecture is still largely deemed to be ethically bneutralb or silent. But is architecture ethically neutral? Is it ethically silent? Can ethical evaluation of designs and built objects operate autonomously from evaluation of the human agents that create them? Can a designerbs activity be considered autonomous, and hence allow for questions of attribution and responsibility? Once we isolate the architectural, landscape, or urban designer from outside pressures, and only focus on her core mC)tier b to what extent is that isolated activity autonomous? And if an architectbs actions cannot be autonomous, would architecture stop having to answer to itself? Philosophical ethics has opened its purview beyond human action to animal ethics and environmental ethics, but has not yet found a way to expand its existing reflections to designed objects, particularly built ones. Perhaps in parallel to ethics, contemporary aesthetics discusses the moral repercussions of art works with clear representational content b socially critical novels, figurative paintings b but has not paid closer attention to architecture.B B Is the lack of attention in aesthetics due to architecturebs representational content being elusive, or because architecturebs aesthetic appraisal is taken to proceed autonomously from moral considerations? How would architecture be considered otherwise?B B SUBMISSION: B The 2014 conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture invites papers which probe these questions, or re-draw the assumptions behind them. It welcomes architects and philosophers willing to scrutinize extant (inter)disciplinary boundaries and consensus on these questions. The conference celebrates attempts to operate at the intersection of both disciplines, and promotes work ready to give philosophical ethics and concrete architect(ure)s serious consideration alike. Authors are invited to submit a 250-300 word abstract byB January 31, 2014. To submit an abstract, and keep up with latest updates on the conference and further ISPA activities, we invite you to registerB on the society website. B SUMMER SCHOOL: B The 2014 ISPA Summer School aims toB bring architecture researchers together from the USA, Canada, and the European Union to jointly seek means to redress the geographic and institutional imbalance in addressing professional ethics in architecture. We have invited researchers with a proven track record of research and teaching in the professional ethics of architecture. Our goal is to confront these researchers with masters students and colleagues from (primarily) EU institutes, so they can hearB theirB questions and concerns. The very workshop-like nature of a summer school seems ideally suited to materialize this aim, of creating an atmosphere of competent discussion and fruitful exchange. Confirmed speakers and discussants for our summer school include Prof. Vasilis Ganiatsas, head of Architectural Design at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Prof. Tom Spector, University of Oklahoma (USA), Dr. Martin DC<chs, Munich (Germany), and Prof. Graham Owen, University of Toronto (Canada). Course coordinators from our IDEALeague partner institutes include Prof. Axel Sowa, Theory Chair in Architecture at RWTH Aachen, and Dr. Christoph Baumberger, Environmental Ethics Unit at ETH ZC<rich. Copyright B) 2013 International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture, All rights reserved. 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