106th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Ethical Imperative

Synphronesis

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Michael Barton

Architecture as a practice and profession is seeking a role for its collaborative, synthetic, humanistic aptitudes in the face of the escalating dominance of technological influences. That role may be found by evolving into a “synphronetic”practice in which production and other actuated systems emerge from ethical systems. While drawing context from philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s discussion of technology, his notion of hyper-control, and articulation of the concept of the pharmakon, this paper will arrive at a definition and discussion of “synphronesis” and speculate on the future role of the Architect as a humanistic technologist.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.70

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9