There is no alibi in designing: Responsibility and dialogue in the design process

Thomas-Bernard Kenniff; Ben Sweeting

There is no alibi in designing: Responsibility and dialogue in the design process

Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, Ben Sweeting

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Abstract

This paper explores a potential relation between architecture and ethics intrinsic to design processes when understood in terms of dialogue or conversation. We draw on separate but related research interests: one focused on the design process, especially the significance of drawing, and the other on the ethics of designing for the public realm, with reference to Bakhtinian dialogism. Our investigation concentrates on two aspects of the design process both of which can be thought of in terms of conversation – first, the relation between architect and Other, and second, the act of drawing. Through this, we support the idea that in design the ethical and the aesthetic cannot be meaningfully separated from one another. Instead, their relation must be understood as a dialogue in and of itself, as well as part of the dialogue between all participants in the design process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Opticon1826
Volume	16
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 6 Jan 2014

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There is no alibi in designing: Responsibility and dialogue in the design process

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