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PAPERS: Knowing with Care: Means and Politics 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: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Session Chair: Zixuan Wang, University of Edinburgh | |
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Reframing design success: Care as a chain of responses 1: Shantou University: Shantou, Guangdong, CN; 2: University of the Arts London: London, GB; 3: School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, AU This paper emerges from a reflection on what counts as success in design. We examine how the relational qualities of care can guide design practice, approaching design as a continuous and socially embedded practice of responsiveness. Drawing on two projects in China, an age-friendly digital service initiative and a community governance intervention, we analyse how design unfolded through incremental adjustments, shared responsibilities, and situated betterments. Across both contexts, value developed through chains of responsiveness involving institutional uptake, resident participation, and evolving collaborations that extended the influence of the work beyond the designers’ immediate involvement. By bringing design into dialogue with Mol’s logic of care, the paper approaches design practice as a form of relational maintenance, through which designers help sustain the networks that allow concerns to surface, be recognised, and be carried forward. From this perspective, design contributes to making things better by supporting ongoing and collective processes of responsiveness. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2933
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