Nettleton, Sarah Joan orcid.org/0000-0002-5184-2764, Martin, Daryl orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-4553 and Buse, Christina orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-8238 (2018) “Essentially It’s Just a Lot of Bedrooms”: Architectural Design, Prescribed Personalization and the Construction of Care ‘Beds’ for Later Life. Sociology of Health and Illness: A Journal of Medical Sociology. pp. 1156-1171. ISSN 1467-9566
Abstract
This paper draws on ethnographic data from a UK ESRC funded study called Buildings in the Making. The project aims to open up the black box of architectural work to explore what happens between the commissioning of architectural projects through to the construction of buildings and seeks to understand how ideas about care for later life are operationalized into designs. Drawing on recent scholarship on ‘materialities of care’ and ‘practising architectures’, which emphasize the salience of material objects for understanding the politics and practices of care, we focus on ‘beds.’ References to ‘beds’ were ubiquitous throughout our data, and we analyse their varied uses and imaginaries as a way in to understanding the embedded nature of architectural work. Four themes emerged: ‘commissioning architectures and the commodification of beds’; ‘adjusting architectures and socio-spatial inequalities of beds’; ‘prescribing architectures and person-centred care beds’; and ‘phenomenological architectures and inhabiting beds’. We offer the concept prescribed personalization to capture how practising architectures come to reconcile the multiple tensions of commodification and the codification of person centred care, in ways that might mitigate phenomenological and serendipitous qualities of life and living in care settings during later life.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC) UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED ES/M008398/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2018 17:40 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2024 01:18 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12747 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12747 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128566 |
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