Ethics
Ethics
What is of value in such communications? What are the tensions?
- Justice
- Resilience
- Valuing history, uniqueness, imagination, curiosity, virtuosity
- Voice
- Identity, personhood
- Value
- Agonism, compromise
Notes
This note describes Lab research that engages with nonhuman justice.
Existing justice models disenfranchise nonhumans, although new theories show promise. Progressive judicial and ethical frameworks empower disadvantaged groups.
Designers working with nonhumans must advocate for their needs. A standard argument classifies nonhumans as providers of ecosystem services that benefit humans, which justifies their presence. These services may include This anthropocentric framing limits opportunities for species to flourish. Ecosystem health depends on habitat connectivity, biodiversity, species mix, climatic conditions, siting. Designs using nonhumans for services de-emphasise these considerations.
Gordon, Bonnie J., and Stanislav Roudavski. "More-than-Human Infrastructure for Just Resilience: Learning from, Working with, and Designing for Bald Cypress Trees (Taxodium distichum) in the Mississippi River Delta." Global Environment 14, no. 3 (2021): 442–4. https://doi.org/10/gmxbh2.
- More-than-human infrastructure
- Theories of justice
- Restorative justice
Roudavski, Stanislav, and Ashley Davis. "Respect for Old Age and Dignity in Death: The Case of Urban Trees." In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History's Futures, edited by Kate Hislop and Hannah Lewi, 638–2. Perth: SAHANZ, 2020.
- Dignity for nonhuman species
- New ethical frameworks
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