Embedded Files
Care is a notion studied across disciplines and from multiple perspectives, influencing new ways of thinking and acting. An expansive definition is offered by feminist critical thinkers Tronto and Fischer who interpret care as “a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, contain, and repair our 'world' so that we can live in it as well as possible.” (1990) DesignLAB, informed by this definition, approaches care as a multi-species activity for maintaining, containing, and repairing the world(s), focussing on the intersection between design and research where design-oriented research and scholarship could adopt care in their approaches and methods for just and transformative engagements.
podcast: Design & Care 🎧
upcoming
Sanitation Infrastructures, China
Research Project: Youcao Ren
key references:
Fitz, A., Krasny, E. (eds.). (2019). Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (Vienna [Austria] : Cambridge, MA: Architekturzentrum Wien ; MIT Press)
Frichot, H., Carbonell, A., Frykholm, H. and Karami, S. (2022). Our Infrastructural Loves: Architectural Pedagogies of Care and Support, Journal of Architectural Education, 76.2: 52–69
de la Bellacasa, M. P. (2017). Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds, Posthumanities, 41 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
de la Bellacasa, M. P. (2012). “Nothing Comes Without Its World”: Thinking with Care, The Sociological Review, 60.2: 197–216
Tronto, J. (2019). ‘Caring Architecture’, in Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, ed. by Fitz and Krasny (Vienna [Austria] : Cambridge, MA: Architekturzentrum Wien ; MIT Press)
care tools & case studies
creating, maintaining and evolving social, environmental and organisational activities and services
Report abuse