Rodgers, Paul and Innella, Giovanni and Bremner, Craig and Coxon, Ian and Broadley, Cara and Cadamuro, Alessia and Carleklev, Stephanie and Chan, Kwan and Dilnot, Clive and Fathers, James and Fennell, Jac and Fremantle, Chris and French, Tara and Henriques, Diogo and Jones, Peter Lloyd and Kettley, Richard and Kettley, Sarah and Khan, Mashal and Logge, Karl and Archer-Martin, Jen and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Pulley, Robert and Shahar, Dina and Teal, Gemma and Tewari, Saurabh and Treadaway, Cathy and Tsekleves, Emmanuel and Valadkeshyaei, Hamed Moradi and Ventura, Jonathan and Watt, Trudy A. and Wiltse, Heather and Winton, Euan (2019) The Lancaster Care Charter. Design Issues, 35 (1). pp. 73-77. ISSN 0747-9360
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Abstract
In the fall of 1991 the Munich Design Charter was published in Design Issues. This charter was written as a design-led “call to arms” on the future nations and boundaries of Europe. The signatories of the Munich Design Charter saw the problem of Europe, at that time, as fundamentally a problem of form that should draw on the creativity and expertise of design. Likewise, the Does Design Care…? workshop held at Imagination, Lancaster University in the autumn of 2017 brought together a multidisciplinary group of people from 16 nations across 5 continents, who, at a critical moment in design discourse saw a problem with the future of Care. The Lancaster Care Charter has been written in response to the vital question “Does Design Care…?” and via a series of conversations, stimulated by a range of presentations that explored a range of provocations, insights and more questions, provides answers for the contemporary context of Care. With nation and boundary now erased by the flow of Capital the Charter aims to address the complex and urgent challenges for Care as both the future possible and the responsibility of design. The Lancaster Care Charter presents a collective vision and sets out new pragmatic encounters for the design of Care and the care of Design.