SPACE INTERWEAVINGS ethos-social practices-architecture

Space, as the material field in which personal, collective and social practices develop, is imbued with the values and meanings of each occasion and is shaped, as regards its organisation, content and form, in correlation with the different aspects of a predominant ethics and/or the conflicting value systems that characterise the specific production context. In contemporary conditions of economic, social, cultural and environmental crisis, the degree of questioning (this valuable arising existential situation) of established values in design process and architectural education leads to a dynamic reflection upon the ‘ethical’ dimension of space. However, the social inclusion in the design process is not always fruitful. It would be possible to examine the relation between ethics and space in the field of the profession (in the practice of architecture, of urban design, of town planning and of landscape architecture) and in that of theory as it is being shaped by the above cognitive fields and their intersection with others (philosophy, the natural and human sciences, art), through an interdiscliplinary logic.