Caring Architecture

Institutions and Relational Practices

Ebba Högström, Catharina Nord (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2017 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-9896-6 (ISBN)

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Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book illuminates how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions. It contains a number of essays by authors from disciplines such as human geography, architecture, planning, design, social work and education. The contributions discuss different examples from institutions in which care is carried out, such as assisted living facilities, residential care for children, psychiatric care facilities, hospitals, and prisons. By adopting a non-representational perspective, emergent practices render visible capacities of being flexible and mouldable, in which institutional architecture is defied, contested and transformed. New situations appear which transgress physical space in partnership with those who populate it, whether humans or non-humans. This book reveals the relational and transformative conditions of care architecture and the ways in which institutions transform (or not) into caring architecture.

Catharina Nord is Associate Professor at the Swedish School of Planning at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Karlskrona, Sweden, where she teaches in the Master’s programmes in Urban Planning and Strategic Spatial Planning. For a number of years, she has carried out research on ageing and architecture, and is currently working on architectural space and care practice in assisted living facilities. She explores these institutional buildings mainly with the support of theories about relational space, assemblage theory and actor-network theory. She has substantial international experience through working and carrying out research for a number of years in Namibia, Uganda and the UK. Ebba Högström is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the Swedish School of Planning at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden, where she is also Director of the Master’s programme in Urban Planning. She received a PhD in Planning and Decision Analysis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and has extensive experience in architectural practice. Her research interests concern institutions, planning and architecture from a socio-material perspective, with a special interest in asylums and mental health care spaces. Currently, she is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2017
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4438-9896-1 / 1443898961
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-9896-6 / 9781443898966
Zustand	Neuware