Designing a Common World: Public Responsibility and the Aim to Objectify Architecture
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2020-06
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This article discusses a current trend in the field of architecture to overcome the inherent aspects of subjectivity within the design process. It argues that the objective to be objective is quite dangerous, as it diminishes the room for architects and other involved in the process of design and construction to take public responsibility for the designed object. With a reference to the writings of Arendt, the article embeds design and subjectivity in the larger framework of the 'world-in-common', and defines 'design' as a form of 'judgment'.
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5 (1)
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97 - 119
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International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture (ISPA)
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS; Subjectivity; Judgment and decision making; Hannah Arendt; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION + PARTICIPATORY PLANNING (PHYSICAL PLANNING); public
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09643 - Avermaete, Tom / Avermaete, Tom
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG