Research record and citation
Status: Published book; first-edition PDF, 9 May 2026
Research summary
A study of architecture, power, and ethical witnessing, examining how built environments shape bodily experience, perception, and dignity.
Research question: How do built environments shape bodily experience, perception, and the responsibilities of witnessing?
Approach and sources: Philosophical and critical inquiry into architecture and spatial experience.
Contribution: Extends questions of witness and critical responsibility into architecture and the experience of space.
Scope and limits: First published as a PDF on 9 May 2026. Later repository releases preserve version history and are not automatically new editions.
Related research programmes
- Witness, Material Presence, and Cultural Memory: Published study associated with the continuing inquiry.
Publication history and rights
Original edition: First-edition PDF, first published 9 May 2026.
Repository version 4; record created 25 May 2026. The creation timestamp identifies this repository record, not the bookβs original publication date or a new edition. Repository-version DOI.
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Cite this work
Dorian Vale. The Moral Evidence of Space. 2026. 1st ed. Museum of One Press. ISBN 978-1-0698203-4-1. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20383926
This research summary was added on 14 October 2026 from the linked public text and bibliographic record. Publication metadata was verified and corrected on 17 October 2026. The complete argument, examples, and references remain in the published work and its repository edition.
Publication record
- Order: 5
- Form: A Post-Interpretive Study
- Subtitle: Architecture, Power, and the Ethics of Witnessing
- ISBN: 978-1-0698203-4-1
- Responsibility: Dorian Vale
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A study of architecture, power, and ethical witnessing, examining how built environments shape bodily experience, perception, and dignity.
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