Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

and arguesthat: “the same careful
law-making
one would give to the rules, roles, and
attention
of politics must also be given to
relationships
things as the building of highways, the
such
of television networks, and the tailoring
creation
seemingly insignificant features on new
of
would be going too far to say that the
It
you sit on has politics, and the power
chair
determine your behaviour. Or would it?
to
is evidence that the design of spaces
There
buildings influences how people relate
and
each other, including theirlevels of
to
in professional settings.Material
teamwork
and architectures encourage
arrangements
activities to happen; they enhance
certain
ways of being, mediate and facilitate
specific
actions, and not others. One example is
some
material arrangements and technologies
the
accompany and reinforce gentrification. In
that
about what divides and unites people,
thinking
is worth considering not only political
it
also the material arrangements
debatesbut
roads, toilets and park benches. Have you
of
looked at something and thought “this
ever
designed to stop people from sleeping
was
on it”? And yet, this is a primary
comfortably
for designers of seating spaces in
concern
and other public areas. Who might be
parks
IV. Ethics
IV. Ethics
Figure 3.11
Low overpass bridge on a Long Island parkway, built by Robert Moses
machines” (Winner 1980).
negatively impacted by this?
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