From an outstretched hand to the frame of a bed to questions of how we house one another, care is implicated at every level of architecture. This issue explores how care can be designed and deployed, in ways both institutional and non-normative, and how structures of support are socially produced and socially productive. 'Non-nuclear family households are typically treated as aberrations,' Helen Hester writes in this issue's keynote. The site of care can be constricted and suffocating, but it can also be elastic, the structures of family and household stretching beyond traditional confines and unfolding, sometimes subversively, into the spaces of the city. In The book of books, Peg Rawes speaks about artists' and architects' responsibility to create 'new vocabularies': to evolve our practices beyond what we build, to the networks of collaboration and care that must be rebuilt.
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