Care and Design

Rob Imrie is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has international expertise in urban governance, architecture and community development in cities, the impact and implications of urban policy in British and international cities, the geographies of disability and the built environment, and the body, embodiment and urban design. He is author of the books Disability and the City (Sage Pubs, 1996), Accessible Housing (Routledge, 2006), and co-author of Inclusive Design (Routledge, 2001) and Architectural Design and Regulation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). His most recent book is the edited volume, Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City (Policy Press, 2014). He was formerly Professor of Geography at King’s College London and Royal Holloway University of London. Charlotte Bates is a Researcher in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work touches on the body and materiality, everyday life, and sense of place. She is currently exploring the relationship between bodies, belonging and space through the European Research Council funded project ‘Universalism, universal design and equitable access to the designed environment’. Her work has been published in Sociological Research Online and Visual Studies, and her first book, an edited volume entitled Video Methods: Social Science Research in Motion (Routledge, 2014), was published in 2014. Kim Kullman is a Researcher on the European Research Council project Universalism, Universal Design and Equitable Access to the Designed Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London. His previous research has explored everyday practices of mobility, concentrating on how these are learned, sustained and transformed across the life course. He has published on childhood, qualitative methods and geographies of care in journals such as Social and Cultural Geography, Children’s Geographies and Geography Compass. He has also co-edited a volume on children’s geographies in Finland, Lapsuuden muuttuvat tilat (Vastapaino, 2012), which, among other topics, engages with different arenas of care, from nurseries to urban spaces.

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xiii1 Designing with Care and Caring with Design 1Rob Imrie and Kim Kullman1.1 Introduction 11.2 Care as a concept and practice 31.3 The problem of ‘good urban form’ 61.4 The collection 10References 152 Age‐inclusive Design: A Challenge for Kitchen Living? 18Sheila Peace2.1 Introduction 182.2 The interface between age and care 182.3 The position of design 222.4 Environment and ageing 232.5 Learning from the NDA programme 242.6 Re‐designing the kitchen 252.7 Conclusion: the relationship between care and design 31References 323 Curating Space, Choreographing Care: The Efficacy of the Everyday 37Daryl Martin3.1 Introduction 373.2 Maggie’s: care by design 393.3 The accommodation of the everyday 423.4 Working the table 453.5 Familiarity bonds and the communal encounter 493.6 Conclusion: hospitality, generosity and the practice of care 51Acknowledgements 53References 534 ‘I Don’t Care About Places’: The Whereabouts of Design in Mental Health Care 56Ola Söderström4.1 Introduction 564.2 The design/care nexus 574.3 Spaces of design/geographies of mental illness 594.4 Everyday urban geographies of mental health 614.5 Designing landscapes of mental health care 68References 705 The Sensory City: Autism, Design and Care 74Joyce Davidson and Victoria L. Henderson5.1 Introduction 745.2 Methodology and meaning 785.3 Global sensory themes: connections, confusions and pressures to conform 795.4 Coming to our senses: pragmatic considerations 815.5 Making space for autism: discussion and recommendations 855.6 Closing thoughts: on being open to embodiments of autistic sensory difference 88References 916 Configuring the Caring City: Ownership, Healing, Openness 95Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie and Kim Kullman6.1 Introduction 956.2 Ownership 986.3 Healing 1036.4 Openness 1086.5 Conclusion 113Acknowledgements 114References 1147 ‘Looking after Things’: Caring for Sites of Trauma in Post‐Earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand 116Jacky Bowring7.1 Introduction 1167.2 Wounding 1217.3 Dwelling 1227.4 Fragility 1237.5 Empathy 1257.6 ‘Treatment’ 1297.7 Re‐wounding? 134Acknowledgements 135References 1358 Empathy, Design and Care – Intention, Knowledge and Intuition: The Example of Alvar Aalto 138Juhani Pallasmaa8.1 Preamble 1388.2 The flesh of the world 1408.3 Empathy in design 1408.4 Architecture as a medical instrument 1428.5 The acts of identification and homecoming 1458.6 The promise of beauty 1458.7 Synthetic design 1468.8 Art and evidence‐based design 1488.9 The power of intuition 1508.10 The loss of empathic wisdom 152References 1539 Architecture, Place and the ‘Care‐Full’ Design of Everyday Life 155Jos Boys9.1 Introduction 1559.2 What counts as care in architectural education and practice? 1569.3 The care‐full design of place 1609.4 Re‐imagining caring in architectural and urban design 1649.5 Caring differently? 1659.6 Conclusion: from places to practices? 174References 17510 Ageing, Care and the Practice of Urban Curating 178Sophie Handler10.1 Introduction 17810.2 ‘Urban curating’ and the spatialised practice of care 17910.3 ‘Making space for older age’ 18110.4 Other stories on growing old 18310.5 Acting ‘otherhow’: extending duties of care 18610.6 A vocabulary of caring labours 18910.7 Subverting the ‘hierarchy of needs’ 19110.8 Conclusion: adopting the language of care 194References 19611 Caring through Design?: En torno a la silla and the ‘Joint Problem‐Making’ of Technical Aids 198Tomás Sánchez Criado and Israel Rodríguez‐Giralt11.1 Introduction: the issue of technical aids in post‐austerity Spain 19811.2 An open‐source wheelchair kit: expanding the relationship between people in wheelchairs and their social and urban environments 20111.3 Opening up space for a briefcase, unleashing the wheelchair’s possibilities 20411.4 Radicalising design through small object interventions: care as ‘joint problem‐making’? 21111.5 Concluding remarks: ‘joint problem‐ making’ as a careful design mode in post‐austerity times? 215Acknowledgements 216References 21612 Design and the Art of Care: Engaging the More than Human and Less than Inhuman 219Michael Schillmeier12.1 Introduction 21912.2 Re‐design as artful contrast 21912.3 Evoking mess 22012.4 Social wellbeing 22212.5 The art of rift‐design 22412.6 Design, care and temporality 22512.7 Design, care and spatiality 22512.8 Caring about and resisting the habitual 22612.9 More than human and less than inhuman 22712.10 The ‘more than human’ of ideas 22812.11 Less than inhuman 22912.12 Design as care 232References 234Afterword: Caring Urban Futures 236Charlotte Bates and Kim Kullman Index 241