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Buildings in the making: a sociological exploration of architecture in the context of health and social care

建造中的建筑：在健康和社会关怀背景下对建筑的社会学探索

基本信息

批准号：
ES/M008398/1
负责人：
Sarah Nettleton
金额：
$ 45.31万
依托单位：
University of York
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FM008398%2F1
关键词：
Buildings making sociological exploration architecture

项目摘要

This study has two interrelated aims. One to develop a sociological understanding of the day to day work of architects and two, to cast light on the way knowledge about health and social care is, quite literally, engineered into buildings designed for care. Architects are not health and social care professionals, but they are employed to create buildings within which care can take place. A better understanding of their ways of working and their contribution to the design and delivery of care therefore offers a novel path for research.The study is led by a research team who are developing a suite of projects on the sociology of architecture. Our previous work on Maggie's Centres provides a point of departure for this study of architecture in the care sector. Maggie's is a charity that provides informal support centres for people living with cancer. Founded by architectural practitioners, Maggie's has a distinctive relationship with its architects who are given significant scope and autonomy in their designs. However, their client-professional relationship is atypical, and architects in the care sector face multiple commercial and regulatory constraints. Thus the Maggie's study provides a point of comparison for our ethnographic investigation into the work of architects in mainstream settings where buildings for care are commissioned by a mosaic of private, corporate, charitable, and state providers. To frame the ethnography, qualitative interviews with architects (n = 10) will scope issues and challenges that they face when designing buildings such as care homes and dementia centres in commercial, charitable and public contexts. An accomplished researcher will then 'enter the field' to work alongside teams of designers in an architectural firm for 18 months. The firm was selected because of their extensive portfolio of projects in the health and social care sector. Attention will be given to the processes of commissioning, planning, concept and technical design of buildings in the making. Fieldwork will involve interviewing architects, commissioners, operators, planners, and service users. The research team will examine documentary sources (e.g. architectural briefs, perspective renderings, policy guidelines and specifications), and observe meetings and site visits. We will address questions such as: How are architectural briefs negotiated and operationalised? Do commercial, care and design considerations give rise to conflicts? Are original design concepts modified and why? Which care guidelines and design models are imported into the design process? How are users configured? What types of knowledge about the care needs are sourced and how are they translated into the materiality of design? Through our detailed observations of working practices we will also generate insights into the architectural craft and the complexities and tensions of design work in the commercialised sectors of care. The project is informed by theoretical perspectives from medical sociology and science and technology studies (STS) that presume the constructed nature of health and medical knowledge and the malleability of technological artefacts. By opening the 'black box' between the commissioning of buildings and their delivery, the study will shed new light on the way evidence based knowledge of health and social care is woven into design, as well as factors that hinder or enhance these processes. Findings will be disseminated to academic, professional, policy and practitioner audiences. We will establish a British Sociological Association 'sociology of architecture' study group. To ensure impact extends beyond academia we will work with our professional collaborators to reflect on how our findings may be used alter to their practice. We will invite practitioners and policy makers to a series of themed symposia, design a stand to exhibit our findings at the 'British Care Shows', and host an end of project dissemination event.

这项研究有两个相互关联的目标。一是对建筑师的日常工作进行社会学理解，二是阐明有关健康和社会护理的知识是如何被设计成用于护理的建筑物的。建筑师不是卫生和社会护理专业人员，但他们被雇用来建造可以进行护理的建筑物。因此，更好地了解他们的工作方式以及他们对护理设计和提供的贡献为研究提供了一条新的途径。这项研究由一个研究团队领导，他们正在开发一套关于建筑社会学的项目。我们以前的工作玛吉的中心提供了一个出发点，在护理部门的建筑研究。Maggie's是一家慈善机构，为癌症患者提供非正式的支持中心。Maggie's由建筑从业者创立，与其建筑师有着独特的关系，他们在设计中拥有重要的范围和自主权。然而，他们的客户-专业关系是非典型的，护理行业的建筑师面临着多重商业和监管限制。因此，玛吉的研究提供了一个比较点，为我们的民族志调查的建筑师在主流环境中的工作，建筑物的护理委托的马赛克的私人，企业，慈善机构和国家提供者。要框民族志，定性采访建筑师（n = 10）将范围的问题和挑战，他们面临的设计时，如护理院和痴呆症中心的商业，慈善和公共环境的建筑。然后，一位有成就的研究人员将“进入该领域”，与一家建筑公司的设计师团队一起工作18个月。该公司之所以被选中，是因为他们在卫生和社会保健部门的项目组合广泛。注意力将集中在调试，规划，概念和建筑物的技术设计过程中。实地考察将涉及采访建筑师，专员，运营商，规划师和服务用户。研究小组将审查文献资料（例如建筑简介、透视图、政策准则和规格），并观察会议和实地考察。我们将解决的问题，如：如何建筑简报的谈判和操作？商业、护理和设计方面的考虑是否会引起冲突？是否修改了原始设计概念，为什么？哪些护理指南和设计模型被导入到设计过程中？如何配置用户？关于护理需求的知识来源是什么，它们如何转化为设计的实质性？通过我们对工作实践的详细观察，我们还将深入了解商业化护理领域的建筑工艺以及设计工作的复杂性和紧张局势。该项目是由医学社会学和科学技术研究（STS）的理论观点，假设健康和医学知识的构建性质和技术人工制品的可塑性。通过打开建筑物调试和交付之间的“黑匣子”，该研究将揭示基于证据的健康和社会护理知识如何融入设计，以及阻碍或增强这些过程的因素。调查结果将分发给学术界、专业人员、政策制定者和从业人员。我们将建立一个英国社会学协会的“建筑社会学”研究小组。为了确保影响力超越学术界，我们将与我们的专业合作者合作，以反映我们的研究结果如何被用于改变他们的实践。我们将邀请从业者和政策制定者参加一系列主题研讨会，设计一个展台，在“英国护理展”上展示我们的研究结果，并举办项目宣传活动的结束。