PRACTISING ETHICS

PRACTISING ETHICS PROJECT

Practising Ethics is an open access website which seeks to develop and outline an understanding of the sensitivities of ethical issues in built environment research and professional practice. It includes the research and writing of Professor Jane Rendell, Dr David Roberts, Dr Yael Padan, Dr Ariana Markowitz and Dr Emmanuel Osuteye. The website, which is designed and produced by David Roberts, has been developed out of a collaboration between the Bartlett Ethics Commission and Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW). A Situated Practice MA project by Montserrat Gutierrez Mesegue provides a case study for the project.

https://www.practisingethics.org

Principles

A Lexicon of Ethical Principles define and contextualise key ethical terms for built environment researchers and practitioners. These terms have been drawn from institutional codes and protocols, various branches of theory and philosophy, as well as lived experiences.
https://www.practisingethics.org/principles

Processes

In Ethical Processes a set of Case Studies offer insights into the ethical dilemmas that can arise during a research project, and how developing an ethical practice involves responding to hotspots, drawing on touchstones, revealing blindspots and re-imagining moonshoots.
https://www.practisingethics.org/processes

Practices

A series of Practising Ethics Guides offer insights into how to negotiate the difficult ‘ethical moments’ that different built environment research methods and contexts pose, and develop an ethical practice as a built environment researcher.
https://www.practisingethics.org/practices

Protocols

A selection of overviews exploring the various ethical codes and procedures drawn up by different institutions, disciplinary groups, professional bodies and research councils.
https://www.practisingethics.org/protocols

Publications

A set of reading lists on specific aspects of ethics.
https://www.practisingethics.org/publications

Montserrat Gutierrez Mesegue, "Our Starter Culture" (MA Situated Practice, 2020).
This project forms a case study for the Practising Ethics Project.

Montserrat also contributed two principles to the Lexicon of Ethical Principles on the website: Intersectionality & Care

PROJECT DETAILS:

• The Bartlett Ethics Commission is a Bartlett Faculty-funded project seeking to develop an understanding of the sensitivities of ethical issues in built environment research and professional practice, led by Professor Jane Rendell, (Director of the Bartlett’s Ethics Commission 2015-20).

• KNOW is an ESRC-funded research project based at the Bartlett’s DPU, led by PI Caren Levy seeking to deliver transformative research and capacity for innovation in policy and planning that will promote and strengthen pathways to urban equality.

• The Practising Ethics website is designed and produced by Dr. David Roberts.

• The Bartlett Ethics Commission worked alongside the Bartlett Ethics Working Group, chaired by Professor Jane Rendell and Professor Mike Raco, from 2015-8, which benefitted from the input of Martin Austwick, Claire Colomb, Helen Dougal, Helen Fisher, Efrosyni Konstaninou, Rowena Lamb, James O'Leary, Niamh Murtagh, Alan Penn, David Roberts, Steve Ridge, Hedley Smyth, Jens Kandt, Michelle Shipworth, and Michael Walls.

• The project has been supported educationally and economically by the Bartlett Faculty, and its Deans, in particular, in its early phase, from the energy and vision of Alan Penn.