Trigger Alert
One person’s trigger alert is another person’s censorship.
Public Health and the City: Talking With Nisha Botchwey—Part 2
Part 2 of our video interview with Professor Nisha Botchwey, an expert in public health, the built environment, and community engagement.
The Ethics of Squirming
Posted on July 11, 2014
in Infernal Machine
But something more does need to be said about the broader ethics of research, which sometimes puts us in uncertain ethical situations. There is something about the will to know, and more so the professionalization of knowledge production, that leaves us more frequently than we would like in tricky ethical territory. Rather than simply relying on an IRB “stamp of approval” university researchers might instead simply stop squirming and take responsibility for their work, even being willing to regret it or repent of it.
Do Cities Tear Us Apart?
For a long time, urban sociologists saw cities as culprits of social isolation and fragmentation. Although this view had certain justifications, its shortsightedness of urban life has opened up opportunities for new methods for urban thinking.
Public Health and the City: Talking With Nisha Botchwey—Part 1
A video interview with Professor Nisha Botchwey, an expert in public health, the built environment, and community engagement.
Recombinant Approaches
Posted on July 7, 2014
in THR Web Features
Image: The Traveler Remembers_Friday, 1987, by Nancy Goldring; courtesy of the artist.
Though careful observation comes first, my process involves research: detecting palimpsests in the architecture or observing how people move and inhabit the place.
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