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Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/2/2008 10:45:56 AM

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http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/dailynews/2008/01/kent_students_asked_to_design_torture_device.html

Also reported on various other news sites.

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/2/2008 2:05:12 PM

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interesting premise by the instructor.

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/2/2008 3:54:14 PM

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it's an interesting concept. unfortunately soc stuff like that tends to go way way out of hand and we end up instituting IRBs after people pretend to torture people or run fake prisions...

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/6/2008 11:05:59 AM

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Hey Rockbound,
A little off topic here but, I was wondering what that Avatar represents. I saw it somewhere else with a sword through it and am trying to figure out what it means. Can you enlighten me?

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/6/2008 7:39:08 PM

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Do you mean the BDSM symbol?

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/6/2008 7:47:29 PM

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Interesting classwork. How can I register to take that class next semester?

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/7/2008 1:30:13 AM

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Triskele symbol.

http://emblemproject.sagcs.net/meaning.htm

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/7/2008 12:00:40 PM

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quote:

Do you mean the BDSM symbol?

I kinda got that part, but was wondering what the sword would signify in the one I saw. Plus the one I saw was in front (or on top) of an Egyptian type starburst.

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/7/2008 7:21:33 PM

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Wow... making architects / engineers think about ethics. This is a radical concept; I thought their jobs were just to build whatever they were paid to, no questions asked. After all, lasers, bombs, nuclear weaponry, biological warfare...those all came from benevolent technological research right? Never think Why...just keep on thinking How. That's how we reached where we are today.

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/7/2008 7:58:47 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ToysAndTies

Wow... making architects / engineers think about ethics. This is a radical concept; I thought their jobs were just to build whatever they were paid to, no questions asked. After all, lasers, bombs, nuclear weaponry, biological warfare...those all came from benevolent technological research right? Never think Why...just keep on thinking How. That's how we reached where we are today.

ironically that's part of the reason that sociologists avoid experiments. people attempted to do benevolent research to see what happens under certain situations and things went to hell in a handbasket. so now we just watch other people like we're in a zoo or something.

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RE: Class Assignment: Build Torture Device - 2/8/2008 1:33:37 PM

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The two-week project is in advance of a major project to design a new headquarters for human-rights group Amnesty International.

I found this last line from the article particularly interesting, felt it framed some of the intention of the project.

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