Architecture and Care

Project summary

The project Architecture and Care will study circumstances for care from a primary focus on the physical surroundings; the material structures that provide the frames for practice and for the social life in institutions that are at the same time housing for some and a workplace for some others who are there to provide care and assistance for those who live there.

* Part 1 (2014-2015) will focus on the new clustered arrangements we see municipalities build for people with intellectual disability.

* Part 2 (2015-2016) will focus on arrangements where both living space and services to the elderly are provided.

* Part 3 (2016-2017) will focus on arrangements where training and preparation for homeless people happens according to the ideas of Housing first is organised.

• How is the purpose of the institution expressed by the building(s) and its rooms?

• How are the rooms taken into use, and, in case it does, how does that challenge their materialized purposes?

• What characterizes the building and its rooms as places?

• What possibilities and challenges for practices do staff attribute to aspects of the building?

Method

(short version) walk-through-interviews perpared for by scrutinizing the plan drawings & room allocations in care institutions for various groups. Grounded Theory analysis.