Care and Design

Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiii 1 Designing with Care and Caring with Design 1 Rob Imrie and Kim Kullman 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Care as a concept and practice 3 1.3 The problem of 'good urban form' 6 1.4 The collection 10 References 15 2 Age-inclusive Design: A Challenge for Kitchen Living? 18 Sheila Peace 2.1 Introduction 18 2.2 The interface between age and care 18 2.3 The position of design 22 2.4 Environment and ageing 23 2.5 Learning from the NDA programme 24 2.6 Re-designing the kitchen 25 2.7 Conclusion: the relationship between care and design 31 References 32 3 Curating Space, Choreographing Care: The Efficacy of the Everyday 37 Daryl Martin 3.1 Introduction 37 3.2 Maggie's: care by design 39 3.3 The accommodation of the everyday 42 3.4 Working the table 45 3.5 Familiarity bonds and the communal encounter 49 3.6 Conclusion: hospitality, generosity and the practice of care 51 Acknowledgements 53 References 53 4 'I Don't Care About Places': The Whereabouts of Design in Mental Health Care 56 Ola Söderström 4.1 Introduction 56 4.2 The design/care nexus 57 4.3 Spaces of design/geographies of mental illness 59 4.4 Everyday urban geographies of mental health 61 4.5 Designing landscapes of mental health care 68 References 70 5 The Sensory City: Autism, Design and Care 74 Joyce Davidson and Victoria L. Henderson 5.1 Introduction 74 5.2 Methodology and meaning 78 5.3 Global sensory themes: connections, confusions and pressures to conform 79 5.4 Coming to our senses: pragmatic considerations 81 5.5 Making space for autism: discussion and recommendations 85 5.6 Closing thoughts: on being open to embodiments of autistic sensory difference 88 References 91 6 Configuring the Caring City: Ownership, Healing, Openness 95 Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie and Kim Kullman 6.1 Introduction 95 6.2 Ownership 98 6.3 Healing 103 6.4 Openness 108 6.5 Conclusion 113 Acknowledgements 114 References 114 7 'Looking after Things': Caring for Sites of Trauma in Post-Earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand 116 Jacky Bowring 7.1 Introduction 116 7.2 Wounding 121 7.3 Dwelling 122 7.4 Fragility 123 7.5 Empathy 125 7.6 'Treatment' 129 7.7 Re-wounding? 134 Acknowledgements 135 References 135 8 Empathy, Design and Care - Intention, Knowledge and Intuition: The Example of Alvar Aalto 138 Juhani Pallasmaa 8.1 Preamble 138 8.2 The flesh of the world 140 8.3 Empathy in design 140 8.4 Architecture as a medical instrument 142 8.5 The acts of identification and homecoming 145 8.6 The promise of beauty 145 8.7 Synthetic design 146 8.8 Art and evidence-based design 148 8.9 The power of intuition 150 8.10 The loss of empathic wisdom 152 References 153 9 Architecture, Place and the 'Care-Full' Design of Everyday Life 155 Jos Boys 9.1 Introduction 155 9.2 What counts as care in architectural education and practice? 156 9.3 The care-full design of place 160 9.4 Re-imagining caring in architectural and urban design 164 9.5 Caring differently? 165 9.6 Conclusion: from places to practices? 174 References 175 10 Ageing, Care and the Practice of Urban Curating 178 Sophie Handler 10.1 Introduction 178 10.2 'Urban curating' and the spatialised practice of care 179 10.3 'Making space for older age' 181 10.4 Other stories on growing old 183 10.5 Acting 'otherhow': extending duties of care 186 10.6 A vocabulary of caring labours 189 10.7 Subverting the 'hierarchy of needs' 191 10.8 Conclusion: adopting the language of care 194 References 196 11 Caring through Design?: En torno a la silla and the 'Joint Problem-Making' of Technical Aids 198 Tomás Sánchez Criado and Israel Rodríguez-Giralt 11.1 Introduction: the issue of technical aids in post-austerity Spain 198 11.2 An open-source wheelchair kit: expanding the relationship between people in wheelchairs and their social and urban environments 201 11.3 Opening up space for a briefcase, unleashing the wheelchair's possibilities 204 11.4 Radicalising design through small object interventions: care as 'joint problem-making'? 211 11.5 Concluding remarks: 'joint problem-making' as a careful design mode in post-austerity times? 215 Acknowledgements 216 References 216 12 Design and the Art of Care: Engaging the More than Human and Less than Inhuman 219 Michael Schillmeier 12.1 Introduction 219 12.2 Re-design as artful contrast 219 12.3 Evoking mess 220 12.4 Social wellbeing 222 12.5 The art of rift-design 224 12.6 Design, care and temporality 225 12.7 Design, care and spatiality 225 12.8 Caring about and resisting the habitual 226 12.9 More than human and less than inhuman 227 12.10 The 'more than human' of ideas 228 12.11 Less than inhuman 229 12.12 Design as care 232 References 234 Afterword: Caring Urban Futures 236 Charlotte Bates and Kim Kullman Index 241