The Design of Care

This edited volume explores notions of care that are overlooked or neglected for one reason or another, featuring projects that examine the most common forms 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 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.

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.

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 healthcare's 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