Designing Cultures of Care

Laurene Vaughan is Professor of Design and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, where she is also Dean, School of Design. She is the editor of Practice-Based Design Research (Bloomsbury, 2017), Designing Cultures of Care (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Using PhDs for Design Practice (forthcoming with Bloomsbury, 2023).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction, Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia)2. Design as a Practice of Care, Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia)3. Out(fit)ting the City: Care and Contribution in Post-industrial Newcastle, Australia, Cathy Smith (University of New South Wales, Australia) and SueAnne Ware (University of Newcastle, Australia)4. Picture Education Today: Data Visualization as a Practice of Critique and Care, Brad Haylock (RMIT University, USA)5. What Do We Want?: Designing Cultures of Care in Conditions of Precarity, Shana Agid (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)6. Patient-centered Care and the Design of a Psychiatric Care Facility, Sarah Pink and Shanti Sumartojo (Monash University, Australia) and Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia)7. Tinkering in Cities: Aging and Careful Technology Design for Participation in Urban Infrastructures, Rachel Clarke (Northumbria University, UK)8. Magic and Dementia: Designing Culture to Empathize with Dementia, Niels Hendriks (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium), Yanki Lee (Design School Kolding, Denmark) and Albert Tsang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)9. Cities of Homefullness: A Proposition, Neal Haslem, Keely Macarow and Guy Johnson (RMIT University, Australia) and Marcus Knutagård (Lund University, Sweden)10. Learning from Parramatta Girls Home: Tactics and Practices for Strategic Design in the Margins, Lily Hibberd (University of New South Wales, Australia)11. Nurturing Forth: Designing Careful Futures in a Small Arctic City, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Janike Kampevold Larsen and Andrew Morrison (Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway) and Maria Bertheussen Skrydstrup (Våranger Museum., Norway)12. The Artwork that Remembers: Designing a Methodology for Community-based Urban Design, Charles Anderson, Chuan Khoo, Jordan Lacey and Ross McLeod (RMIT University, Australia)13. Seeking Empathy in Conscious Cities, Claire McAndrew (UCL, UK) and Itai Palti (Hume, Israel)14. Concerning Relations in the City: Designing Relational Services in Sharing Economies, Cameron Tonkinwise (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)15. Layers of Care: Co-Designing a City Laboratory of Intercultural Dialogue, Noel Waite (RMIT University, Australia)16. Performing a Practice of Care: A Dialogue, Mick Douglas and Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia)

Designers owe a duty of care to clients and society. This book challenges accepted, defensive understandings in this deeply selfish world, to encourage designers to conceive of all design as being a practice of care, with numerous examples of proactive ways of doing so.