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PAPERS: Making with Care: Artefacts and Practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-2-edinburgh Session Chair: Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh Session Chair: Paul Rodgers, University of Strathclyde | |
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Toward caring urban design: developing care practices through thinking with Forno Vagabondo 1: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Zukunfts*archiv; 2: La Foresta – Accademia di comunità; Basel Academy of Art and Design and the Art University Linz, Zukunfts*archiv Urban crises and power inequalities intensify processes of urbanization that reinforce exclusion, segregation, and displacement. Within urban design, care has recently been discussed as an ethical and political framework for addressing these dynamics. However, little attention has been paid to how care-ethical principles can be translated into concrete urban design practices. This paper responds to this gap by developing four caring practices for urban design. Using dialogical inquiry through conversation as a method, the research brings together feminist care ethics with situated, practice-based knowledge from the urban design project Forno Vagabondo – a mobile social oven traveling through a valley in the Italian Alps. Through this process, four interrelated approaches are developed: context sensitivity, common maintenance, tangible interdependence, and transformative solidarity. Together, these practices illustrate how care can materialize in urban design and open possibilities for more relational and emancipatory urban futures. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1759
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