ARC5401 · Ethics in practice

Overview

This unit explores individual and systemic theories, principles and practices that influence the way we engage with clients, stakeholders, communities and living environments through the professional practice of architecture. The unit will focus on three key question areas. • Who are you and what do you care about? • Who are you designing for and with? • How does this influence the way you will practice architecture? The unit will explore relational and participatory forms of engagement, co-creation, design and communication for architectural projects undertaken across diverse social and cultural settings, and in local and international contexts. This will importantly include approaches, protocols and practices for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders on Countries.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Understand the principles and paradigms of stakeholder and community engagement appropriate to the project planning, design and communication of architecture, and the evolving ethical responsibilities of architects to all living things;
2. Investigate and apply intercultural knowledge with respect to the values, aspirations and cultural representations of who you are designing with and for, using culturally responsive and appropriate methods;
3. Synthesise and relate complex and often competing aspirations in order to create a holistic project purpose, process and design outcomes;
4. Determine one's positionality and inherent biases and understand how they influence and are impacted by power dynamics within the ethical and relational choices made in architectural project planning, design and communication;
5. Advocate for the needs of all living things by contextually adapting your role as an architect in a culturally responsive manner;
6. Critically analyse your positionality, how it changes over time, and how this impacts your view on the role of the architect.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.