Practising Ethics

Grappling with ethics can all too often disorientate and disturb your peace of mind in the small hours of the night. Practising Ethics was borne from such ethical dilemmas, a companion to an award-winning open-access toolkit, in which we share the transformative ethical practice we developed that seeks to reorient ethics from an obstacle to an opportunity.

Bridging the gap between research volume and textbook, Practising Ethics offers a poethic infrastructure for guiding the development of ethical practice in architectural and urban research. The book’s two-part structure creates a dialogue between ethical concepts including decolonial, feminist and queer theory, ecological and ethics as a lived experience, which are explored through specific situations. A series of essays present hotspots, touchstones, keystones, blindspots, moonshots and milestones as different ethical orientations in a six-point methodology. Six case studies, written by practitioners and researchers, navigate these orientations through narrative figurations that describe ethical deliberations that took place through social science, humanities, practice-led and participatory art and architectural design research in India, Nigeria, Peru, El Salvador and the United Kingdom. Practising Ethics is illustrated by Judit Ferencz who offers creative exercises for readers to develop their own poethic infrastructures.