Materialities of care: encountering health and illness through artefacts and architecture

'Materialities of Care' addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.

It makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice.

It also examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells.