The City of Care

The book explores care as a transition strategy to a healthier and more sustainable world. After the lesson learned from the pandemic, health as a fundamental human right is increasingly related to a care component: caring for sick people, persons with disabilities, elders, migrants and refugees, women and children, caring for bodies, minds, cities and nature. Endorsing the care system as a female knowledge based on complexity, flexibility, management of the unexpected, sense of responsibility, the project culture can extract this paradigm from the domestic perimeter, bring outside and make it accessible to all in work, politics, relationships, places and communities. The systemic connection between planet and people wellbeing will be grasped through a transdisciplinary perspective that allows to deal with the city of care at a mental, physical, social and global level. The first section addresses care and interior space, dealing with dwelling, working, proximity and cities on a human scale, with a particular attention to the post Covid conditions. The second section deals with healthcare design, the evolution and trend of healing spaces, the influence of technology and robotics on inclusive design processes. The third section considers a social care attitude and deals with the multiethnic urban dimension, care and creativity in design, society and relationships, the right to health of immigrant people.

Presents a holistic and multidisciplinary perspective to approach problems and solutions through design Explores the applications of design to dwelling, working and healthcare services Demonstrates the role of design in shaping spaces, objects, services, and human relationships

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Care and dwelling culture.- Ethics of care and reuse of urban space.- Post-COVID interiors in the city of care.- Imagination as a design tool for a mental wellbeing urbanism.- Hybrid spaces for a new dimension of care.- Cities of proximity. From the neighborhood to the world.- Learning from COVID 19. A comparison of innovative design solutions for human-centred healthcare facilities.- Who says hospitals are ugly? Evolution and trends of architectures for health.- Technological Low Hanging Fruits involved in combating the COVID 19 pandemic.- Capsules of Health in the City. <p