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Architecture, place and the 'care-full' design of everyday life

Boys, J; (2016) Architecture, place and the 'care-full' design of everyday life. In: Bates, C and Imrie, R and Kullman, K, (eds.) Care and Design Bodies, Buildings, Cities. (pp. 155-177). John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, UK.

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Abstract

Jos Boys discusses how assumptions about care are mobilised within architectural education in the UK, and particularly how these are refracted through the concept of place-making. Boys offers a constructive criticism of a widely used textbook, which outlines a phenomenological approach to inspire caring sensibilities among professionals through stressing the emotional, sensory and material qualities of place. Boys argues that the book advances a series of unsustainable ideas, among them the assumption about the universality of certain built forms and experiences, which overlooks bodily diversity and difference as well as the fact that built environments can often be profoundly disabling. Boys therefore draws on contemporary social theory and critical design to develop alternative ways of understanding care in architectural education, ones that direct attention to the potential exclusions of design as well as invite professionals to actively recognise and creatively disrupt normalising tendencies in current practices.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Architecture, place and the 'care-full' design of everyday life
ISBN: 1119053498
ISBN-13: 9781119053491
DOI: 10.1002/9781119053484.ch9
Publisher version: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/978111...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt > Bartlett Real Estate Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088524
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