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Aaron Pearce: Anti-Anti-Loitering Benches - A Morally Perfect Object?

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This episode features a conversation with Aaron Pearce, a final year undergraduate student on the BA (Hons) Product Design course at Cardiff School of Art & Design, about their final year research which explores the idea of moral objects and challenges the concept of anti-loitering benches.

In conversation with Aaron are Dr Martyn Woodward and Emma Smith

You can find out more about Aaron’s work via his Instagram @aaronpearce_designs

If you would like to follow up on some of the ideas discussed in this episode you may find the following resources interesting:

  • Dunne, A. & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. The MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts & London, England.
  • Verbeek, P. 2011. 3. Do Artifacts Have Morality? Moralizing
  • Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 41-65. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226852904-004


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