Plant Ethics or an Environment for the Birth of a New Human? An Exploration in Radical Ethics for Sustainable Architecture

Theorists of sustainable design frequently argue for the need to perceive the world differently, to find new ways to live, and to create new values to replace old. Ethical questions are implicit in such explorations and pitted against exploitative relationships to the environment and other living beings. An ecological ethic may be argued as inclusive in its concern for preserving the inter-relationship of all organisms to their environments but contemporary environmental philosophy and can have an ambiguous relationship to social ethics. To address such dilemmas, architecture must open its horizon to new and radical ways of thinking and being. Architecture needs new ethical philosophy. In this paper, I explore some radical thinkers of environmental and social ethics, and their critics, and suggest the beginning of an implication for approaches to sustainable architecture.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.31

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9