Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, explore the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care.
Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity, this edited volume of essays develops an expanded discourse on the role and contribution of design to broader social, cultural and material challenges. Based around a unifying critique of the proposition of care as a theoretical framework for undertaking design research in real world contexts, each chapter presents a case study of design research in action.
This book provides readers — both academics and practitioners — with insights into the possibilities and challenges of designing cultures of care. The disciplines represented in this collection include architecture, visual communication, participatory and social design, service design, critical and speculative design interventions and design ethnography. Case studies provide real world insights that have relevance and value to design students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to researchers at all levels within and outside of the academy.
Edited by:
Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781350353534
ISBN 10: 1350353531
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 09 March 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. 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)
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).
Reviews for Designing Cultures of Care
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. * Katharine Heron MBE, Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster, UK *
