Description
Book SynopsisDrawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons.
Typical definitions of care center around the maintenance of a livable life, encompassing everything from shelter and welfare to health and safety. Architecture plays a fundamental role in these definitions, inscribed in institutional archetypes such as the home, the hospital, the school, and the nursery. However, these spaces often structure modes of care that prescribe gender roles, bodily norms, and labor practices. How can architecture instead engage with an expanded definition of care that questions such roles and norms, producing more hybrid entanglements between our bodies, our collective lives, and our environments? Chapters in this book explore issues ranging from disabled domesticities and nursing, unbuilding whiteness in the built environment, practices and
Table of Contents
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements
Introduction: Reclaiming the Standard of Care
Brittany Utting
PART I: Intimacy and Interdependence
1. Disabled Domesticities and the Politics of Bathrooms: Architectural Enactments of Interdependence
Ignacio G. Galán
2. Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With Architecture
Lilian Chee, with a photo essay by Ian Mun
3. Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern Hospital
Piergianna Mazzocca
4. Care as Infrastructure
Ani Liu in Conversation with Brittany Utting
PART II: Collective Power and Conflict
5. Detroit Industry and “The Mural”: Representing Labor and Reappropriating Care in the Museum and in the Union Hall
Jay Cephas
6. Aesthetics of Paradox: Hospitals for the United Mine Workers of America (1946–1958)
Joy Knoblauch
7. Commoning Practices as a Form of Care
Neeraj Bhatia
8. Caring to Act, Acting to Care: Unbuilding Whiteness in the Built Environment
Fabiola López-Durán and Adrienne Rooney
Part III: Landscapes of Repair
9. Care Manual: Caring Is What Caring Does
Hélène Frichot
10. Field Stations for a Future Climate: Architectures of Environmental Care
Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting
11. Floating University Berlin: A Natureculture Learning Site
Rosario Talevi and Gilly Karjevsky
12. Propping Up the Cloud
Elsa MH Mäki
Index
