Plant ethics or an environment for the birth of a new human? An exploration in radical ethics for sustainable architecture.

Wheeler, Andrea

Plant ethics or an environment for the birth of a new human? An exploration in radical ethics for sustainable architecture.

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2019-03-15

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Wheeler, Andrea

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Wheeler, Andrea

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Abstract

This paper critically examines literature concerned with an ethics in the multiplicity of different approaches to the design of sustainable architecture. Sustainable design theorists commonly argue for the need to perceive the world differently, to find new ways to live, to create new values to replace old: questions of ethics are implicit in such explorations.

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This abstract is published as Wheeler, A. Plant ethics or an environment for the birth of a new human? An exploration in radical ethics for sustainable architecture. At the 106 Annual Meeting of The Ethical Imperative Conference held March 15-17, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. Posted with permission.