Care.
Care.
“Care. is a research and educational project addressing architecture and care launched in 2023 in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich. The project focuses on non-conforming bodies to promote new forms of interdependent care through design and theory. Architecture is understood as an instrument to promote forms of care that foster interdependencies among diverse individuals and social groups. Dismantling care regimes based on unevenly distributed and often invisibilized care labour, we promote an architecture that acknowledges the multiplicity of body dispositions in social space – from ageing to neurodivergence, from gender to race. To date, the architectural discipline has constructed, under the umbrella of an alleged 'normality', a spatial regime that is deeply unequal. From the perspective of non-conforming bodies and acknowledging the intersectional condition of the self, Care. aims to rethink the built environment – from the infrastructural to the legal – to transgress reductive heteronormative configurations of collective living."