Navigating the New Normal: How Emerging Practice Models are Prioritizing Ethics and Design as Activism - REGULAR

Navigating the New Normal: How Emerging Practice Models are Prioritizing Ethics and Design as Activism

This webinar was part of the RAIC 2021 Virtual Conference on Architecture

Topics: The Practice and Business of Architecture

Length: 1 hour | What's Included: Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion 

This webinar is available to stream! 

The practice of architecture is faced with ever increasing urgency to define new practice models that prioritize ethics to address ongoing social justice, environmental and economic crises. This bilingual conversation will explore historic practices in Canadian design around ethics and define the societal drivers that are inspiring a desire for change including design as sustained activism. We will identify how other creative industries have addressed the need for a broadening of ethical responsibility and look within the profession to highlight successful elements from established practice models. As stakeholders in the creative process rapidly broaden, ethics needs to emerge as a fundamental principle.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the history of ethics in western design culture and its evolution through changing contexts while clearly identify the societal drivers leading to a need for a redefinition of the ethics for the new normal;
• Compare past and present design approaches and practice models in regard to their capacity to respond to the necessity for the profession’s renewed social contract;
• Identify a series of promising emerging hybrid practice models in Canada that are centered on action-led research that prioritizes resilient change while interactively engaging the audience in the discussion;
• Describe how perspective hybrid practice models and their modes of operation can become a tool for activism presented with supporting conceptual diagrams.

Subject Matter Experts

Grace Coulter Sherlock, Architect AAA, MAA, MRAIC / Regional Director – West Lemay

Marie El-Nawar, Architect MOAQ / Design Leader, Lemay

Available Until: December 31, 2022 

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