This edited volume explores notions of care that are overlooked or neglected for one reason or another, featuring projects that examine the most common notions of care – mostly health and social care – in a new light.
Chapters cover new ground – from overlooked histories of care to caring for the future; from economies and the commodification of care to equitable care; from anarchic care to the choreography of care; from a proposing a policy for empathy to questioning whether design really needs empathy at all; and much more. The book shows that design is well-situated to bring forward, in theory and in practice, a care of the possible in view of what can be prevented and, in the same gesture, of what can be invented about the future of care.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in product design, service design, information design, sustainable design, and user centred/user experience design.
This edited volume explores notions of care that are overlooked or neglected for one reason or another, featuring projects that examine the most common notions of care – mostly health and social care – in a new light.
Introduction Part 1: Reporting the State of Design & Care
1. Design
Imaginariums for Facilitating Cultures of Care
2. Caring of Collective
Consciousness
3. Designing with Care in Communities
4. The Designed Care
Organisation: The Need for an Empathy Policy
5. Delivering Ideal-Real Care
6.
Enduring Healthcare: How healthcares sensory environments could present a
design solution to cognitive overload, enabling improved work satisfaction
and quality of care Part 2: Problems with Care & Design
7. Care through
Benign Anarchy
8. Carefully Designed: Transforming Design Process with Care
9. Designing for Death
10. Empathy Mapping in Healthcare: Bridging the Gap
Between Technology and Compassion
11. Who Killed Care? A Critique on the
Groys/ Sade paradox of self-care Part 3: Design & Care in Context
12. Caring
with[ in] Uncertainty
13. The Duality of Care in Healthcare
14. Designing
Equitable Care During Permacrisis
15. Subversions of Care in New Woman
Fiction
16. Ecosomatic Compositions of Care
17. Well-making, Worlding,
Workshops and Wardrobes: Caring through Clothing and Textile
18.
Entanglements of Care: Dissolving boundaries of time, geography and scale
Part 4: Design & Care Futures
19. Moshing as a Choreography of Care
20.
Narratives of Care in Interplanetary Fiction: A Speculative Perspective
21.
Caring for the Future: Brightside
22. AI in Care (good, bad, ugly)
23. Does
AI Care? A Dialogue with ChatGPT on the Role of Artificial Intelligence in
Healthcare
24. 100 Questions about Care Conclusions
Craig Bremner is Professor of Design at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Design Manufacturing & Engineering Management, Scotland.
Giovanni Innella is Associate Professor of Design at VCUarts, Qatar.
Justin Magee is Professor of Design at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.