Routledge Situated Ecologies of Care (Critiques)

This book specifically situates the concept of ‘care’ within those practices and discourses which are the entangled relationships of architecture and the humanities. The book presents responses to such questions as: how can care inhere in the ecologies of modes of representation that we use to design and communicate architecture? Who is caring for whom/ what in activist practices of urban development? How can we understand the very situated potential of professional practice and its political nature to engender caring forms of ‘doing’ architecture? What are the expanded ecologies of buildings for care (such as educational and healthcare facilities) and how do they acknowledge the particularities of users’ situations? It is the inter- and transdisciplinary nature of the crisscrossings of architecture and the humanities which permeate the works presented in the book, bringing together an international collection of thinkers and makers to respond response-ably, with care, through the specificities of architectural thought. This book brings together developed works from a geographically diverse set of contributors, which as a collection offers insights into the possibilities of care’s insinuation into the breadth of what we might label ‘architecture’ in very different international cultural settings. It provides essential reading for students, researchers, and academics in this burgeoning area of research.