scholarly journals Alterlivability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-430
Author(s):  
Aimi Hamraie
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Design Philosophy ◽  
Design Methodologies ◽  
New Urbanist ◽  
City Of Refuge ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
Design Fiction ◽  
Speculative Design

Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability concept of livable worlds, such as those in which nonnormate life thrives. Whereas the former ought to broaden its notion of “lives worth living,” the latter would benefit from a more specific theory of design—the making and remaking of more livable worlds. In response, this article offers the concept of “alterlivability,” a design philosophy grounded in permaculture ethics. Drawing on two novels by ecofeminist writer Starhawk—The Fifth Sacred Thing (1994) and City of Refuge (2016)—the article explores the genre of speculative design fiction for its insights into prototyping more livable futures in the Anthropocene. Starhawk’s novels illustrate alterlivability as a set of political commitments, design methodologies, and spatial forms that place disabled, racialized, and poor people at the center of alterlivable worlds.

9. Death and the good life

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
William M. Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
The Good Life

For Montaigne death forms part of any life that is worth living. “Death and the good life” considers Montaigne’s writing and thought on the end of life and on living life. Montaigne is optimistic in his earlier essays about the freeing effects of inspecting and accepting mortality. Later, less confident that we can detach ourselves from the constraints of earthly existence, he is firmly convicted that death is inextricably bound up with life. In fact, he states, we rub shoulders with death every day. However, no writer can please everyone and Montaigne is no exception and this is arguably the most evident in his writing on these two weighty topics.

scholarly journals Aristotle and Ricœur on Practical Reason

Humanitas ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Gonçalo Marcelo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Nichomachean Ethics ◽  
Life Worth Living

This paper analyzes the Aristotelian notion of phronesis, such as it appears in Book VI of the Nichomachean Ethics, detailing what sort of model to grasp practical reason it entails: a practical wisdom. Setting it against the backdrop of a reflection on the prevalent uses and meanings of reason today, and the consequence these views have for a depiction of selfhood and human action, the paper shows how, amid the contemporary revival of Aristotelian practical philosophy, Paul Ricœur updates this phronetic model in Oneself as Another. The paper discusses the implications of such a thick account of selfhood and human action, such as it being a potential key to overcome some difficulties caused by Kantian moral philosophy, while it also calls, with and beyond Ricœur, for a refinement of the phronetic model by taking into account not only its thick intersubjective grounding but also the limits to rationality and the need to take the plurality of life forms that can count as being examples of a ‘life worth living’ (a good life).

scholarly journals Praxis and language: Teaching newly arrived migrant children to “live well in a world worth living in”

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervi Kaukko ◽  
Jane Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
English Language ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Intensive English ◽  
Language Schools ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Human Kind

This article continues the well-established discussion of the ethics of TESOL by adopting a praxis perspective that views TESOL as holistic, ethical and moral task, rather than a technical task of delivering learning outcomes in a new language. This article is informed by the authors’ empirical research in Finnish preparatory classes, and in intensive English language schools in Australia, including interviews with teachers, students and educational leaders. Drawing on literature and this research we consider how English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) and Finnish as a Second Language (F2) teaching can promote “a good life” for the individual learner and human kind.

scholarly journals Owning the servers: A design fiction exploring the transformation of fandom into "our own"

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Fiesler
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design Fiction ◽  
Speculative Design

This essay serves as a speculative design fiction that traces the history of fan creation platforms from the past to the present and finally to a possible future. Using the history and success of the Archive of Our Own (https://archiveofourown.org/) as a focal point, I consider the importance of owning the servers as a way for fan communities to create and preserve culture and reassert values. Examining one possible legal and technological future with an air of optimism allows us to consider what fannish communities can do now to maintain a path of our own.

Successful Aging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Tesch-Romer ◽  
Hans-Werner Wahl ◽  
Suresh Rattan ◽  
Liat Ayalon
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Successful Ageing ◽  
Life Worth Living ◽  
The One

Biological ageing is a progressive decline in physiological functionality, and an increase in the chances of chronic diseases and death. Ageing of the body sets in and happens progressively, exponentially and intrinsically in the period beyond the naturally evolved essential lifespan of a species. Ageing science has searched for the factors securing longevity in good health. An end to this quest is not foreseeable. For a large number, frailty and cognitive impairment is the reality of ageing, and it is by no means certain if health promotion, prevention, and other interventions will reduce the probability of its occurrence. A narrow understanding of ‘successful ageing’ as good health, full functioning, and active participation in society excludes a large portion of ageing individuals from the quest for a good life in old age. Hence, the term is highly ambivalent. On the one hand, it counteracts the deficit view of ageing and facilitates visionary thinking on what might be possible in the future. On the other hand, its ageist and derogative features have negative consequences. Striving for a good life in old age should be inclusive, acknowledging different forms and pathways of ageing. Conceptions of life worth living up to very old age can vary widely, and may include good health and functioning, and also life satisfaction, wisdom, supporting environments, and good care. The discussion on successful ageing needs a multifaceted and pluralistic spirit of discourse, which aims to integrate different models of life-course development into a new narrative of successful ageing.

scholarly journals The good life: living for health and a life without risks? On a prominent script of nutrigenomics

2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rixt H. Komduur ◽  
Michiel Korthals ◽  
Hedwig te Molder
Keyword(s):  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Life Worth Living ◽  
The Individual

Like all scientific innovations, nutrigenomics develops through a constant interplay with society. Normative assumptions, embedded in the way researchers formulate strands of nutrigenomics research, affect this interplay. These assumptions may influence norms and values on food and health in our society. To discuss the possible pros and cons of a society with nutrigenomics, we need to reflect ethically on assumptions rooted in nutrigenomics research. To begin with, we analysed a set of scientific journal articles and explicated three normative assumptions embedded in the present nutrigenomics research. First, values regarding food are exclusively explained in terms of disease prevention. Health is therefore a state preceding a sum of possible diseases. Second, it is assumed that health should be explained as an interaction between food and genes. Health is minimised to quantifiable health risks and disease prevention through food–gene interactions. The third assumption is that disease prevention by minimisation of risks is in the hands of the individual and that personal risks, revealed either through tests or belonging to a risk group, will play a large role in disease prevention. Together, these assumptions suggest that the good life (a life worth living, with the means to flourish and thrive) is equated with a healthy life. Our thesis is that these three normative assumptions of nutrigenomics may strengthen the concerns related to healthism, health anxiety, time frames and individual responsibilities for health. We reflect on these ethical issues by confronting them in a thought experiment with alternative, philosophical, views of the good life.

scholarly journals DESIGN FICTION IN DESIGN EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY ON STUDENT PROJECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (82) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
Design Fiction ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
Speculative Design

Design fiction is a critical design approach which speculates on possible futures and forms technology-based visions on how future life might be and explains fictional worlds through the designed artefacts. Design fiction opens a free space to question current assumptions, operations, and systems. Design fiction is also used to create alternative worlds by moving away from various constraints, business expectations in particular, and to provide a convenient atmosphere for students to be able to think in a conceptual context, to develop new discourse, and to question their relation with reality. The present article argues that design fiction can be used as an instrument to question the position of design education in providing a labour force to the sector, and to move out of the structure of the design fiction that focuses on now and today. In this scope, the design fiction projects produced in the course of a Visual Communication Design Project will be examined, the methods used and the stages followed will be explained, and opinions will be presented on the possible angles of outcomes for students in design education. Keywords: Design fiction, design education, visual communication design, speculative design

A Comprehensive Review of Ultimate and Allowable Stress Design Methodologies for External Load Calculation of Petrochemical Equipment: Eurocode 8 Versus ASME Codes

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Botsis ◽  
G. Anagnostides ◽  
N. Kokavesis
Keyword(s):  
Yield Stress ◽  
Safety Factor ◽  
Process Equipment ◽  
Design Codes ◽  
Allowable Stress ◽  
Design Philosophy ◽  
Design Methodologies ◽  
Strength Design ◽  
External Loads ◽  
Allowable Stress Design

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of design methodologies for process equipment under pressure subjected to seismic loads. Such equipment includes spherical and cylindrical tanks, pressure vessels including towers and reactors, and fired heaters. For this equipment, the wall thickness of the pressure retaining space is designed so that the hoop stress is a fraction of the yield stress, Sy, of the material of construction. This fraction of the yield stress is called the allowable stress, Sm, and it is used in the allowable stress design codes such as ASME and API. However the magnitude of the stresses due to external loads is not determined by code rules. The task of calculating the stresses due to external loads is left up to the designer. Furthermore, process equipment is often sufficiently massive so that anchorage is needed to avoid overturning and a potential fire hazard. The anchors or bolts are imbedded in concrete bases, which are designed using strength design codes such as UBC, ASCE or EUROCODES. The level of stress in such structures is allowed to reach the yield stress of the material of construction. The safety factor in structures sized using allowable stress design philosophy is taken in the allowable stress. The safety factor in structures sized using strength design philosophy is realized by using load factors or increased loads. Guidelines are provided to solve the problem of merging the two design philosophies while avoiding the application of safety factors twice in the mechanical design of process equipment subjected to external loads and pressure.

scholarly journals Aristotle and Pedagogical Ethics

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Leena Kakkori ◽  
Rauno Huttunen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Ethical Code ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Good Teacher ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Life Worth Living

The teacher’s pedagogical ethics refers to the Kantian maxims that a teacher is obliged to follow. One could provide a list of the most crucial maxims that a teacher must absolutely not violate. We surely need these Kantian maxims in the teachers’ pedagogical ethics, although they tell us very little about the properties that good and moral teachers should possess. In teacher education we must of course elaborate on the ethical code of the teacher (maxims), but we must also consider the properties of a morally good teacher. A good source in endeavouring to find these properties is the book Aristotle wrote over 2,000 years ago, Nicomachean Ethics. According to Aristotle, a virtuous citizen must be educated. Without virtues (άρετή) – at least a certain degree of virtues – the polis community is impossible. Virtues are the human properties or action dispositions which facilitate the existence of telos, the purpose of a human being.” The telos of a man is to live a life worth living (eudaimon). Man achieves his telos by living a good life, which is a life lived according to certain virtues. In this article we consider what kind of a person a virtuous teacher is and what kind of a friend she is to her pupils.

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