ABSTRACT
Ethics sensitizes us to the needs of those who lack power and there are few classes of people more vulnerable to the decisions of those in power than students, whose work is constantly being judged and evaluated by adults in educational settings. That is particularly an issue in architectural education, where those judgements can be particularly subjective and where the divide between a learning experience and the exploitation of students’ ideas can get fuzzy. This chapters explores a particularly egregious example of the exploitation of student work and makes the argument that students need to have agency over their own labor as well as their own ideas, and ethics requires that that be respected.
