Architecture and Care: Research Method Design Practice

About the course

This webinar is part of the 2026 Conference On-Demand Bundle Series

This session presents research on architecture’s potential to centre care as a guiding principle in both design and professional practice—within a discipline historically shaped by power, money, and control over resources. Through built and conceptual examples, the session examines how integrating care-driven research into practice can generate alternative ways of working and more socially engaged, altruistic outcomes in architecture.

By the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

Discuss the social contexts in which architecture operates and identify key strategies for advancing an altruistic approach to architectural practice.
Define the concept of care as it relates to architectural practice and discuss its role as a motivating factor in design and decision-making.
Appraise the value and impact of incorporating concepts of care into architectural design.
Identify research methods that advance considerations of care and evaluate how these methods can be integrated into their own work.