Caring architecture : institutions and relational practices / edited by Catharina Nord and Ebba Högström.
- Date:
- 2017
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Description
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. Publisher.
Publication/Creation
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Physical description
vi, 194 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes
"Based on a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, which was held in London in August, 2014"--Acknowledgements.
Contents
Between Caring and Architecture / Gunnar Olsson, Martin Gren -- Introduction / Catharina Nord, Ebba Högström -- Covertly Entangled Lines / Chris Philo -- Hospitalisation and Spatial Vagueness: Patients' Sense of Plasticity in a Care Environment / Erling Björgvinsson, Gunnar Sandin -- The Art Studio: Both a Stabiliser and a Mobiliser in Translations of Residential Care Homes for Troubled Teenagers / Susanne Severinsson -- Stratum Architecture: An Iterated Architectural Assemblage of Care for the Very Aged / Catharina Nord -- Sustaining the Webs of Life: An STS-Approach to Space, Materiality and Subjectivity in Care / Ingunn Moser -- "Engineering" Affective Atmospheres and the Role of Aesthetics in the Asylum / Kim Ross -- The Ghosts of the Refractory Ward: R.D. Laing and (Re)configuring Psychiatric Spaces of Care / Cheryl McGeachan -- Normative and Relational Aspects of Architectural Space: The Usability of Common Spaces in Assisted Living for Older People / Morgan Andersson -- Translating Spatial Experiences of a Mental Health Centre to Design Recommendations. A Mission Impossible? / Ebba Högström -- From Caring Architecture to the Architecture of Care / Albena Yaneva.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194).
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineCACE.ADOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 1443898961
- 9781443898966