Designing Health: Urban Spaces for Sick Children, 1850-1914

在1850-1914年间，专门为治疗儿童而设计的新型健康空间在英国各地的城市建成。在此期间，仅伦敦就出现了十几个机构，其目的是治愈和治疗生病或贫困儿童，发展专门的医疗培训和推进临床实践。本研究以伦敦、布莱顿、曼彻斯特、伯明翰、利物浦和纽卡斯尔的详细案例为重点，采用原始档案研究，探讨了儿童空间的设计方式和原因，并考虑了它们对现代城市健康和儿童发展历史的影响。现有的历史倾向于优先考虑男性专业人士——医生、科学家和建筑师——在儿科空间的生产中。在这个项目中，我调查了慈善家、护理人员、病人和父母的观点，以便更好地了解他们在决定儿童医院的设计和生活体验方面的作用。我对主要证据的分析借鉴了最近在儿童和情感地理学、医学史以及建筑和设计研究方面的工作。这个跨学科的项目通过揭示非建筑师的复杂角色，特别是女性，作为现代幸福空间发展的关键设计代理人，推动了设计历史的界限。

Between 1850-1914 new kinds of health spaces specifically designed to treat children were constructed in cities across Britain. During this time, London alone witnessed the emergence of more than a dozen institutions whose purpose was to cure and treat sick or impoverished children, to develop specialized medical training and advance clinical practice.Focusing on detailed case studies in London, Brighton, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle and employing original archive research, this study investigates how and why pediatric spaces were designed, and considers their impact on histories of health and child development in the modern city. Existing histories tend to prioritize the work of male professionals - doctors, scientists and architects - in the production of pediatric spaces. In this project, I investigate the underrepresented perspectives of philanthropists, carers, patients and parents in order to better understand their role in determining the design and lived experience of children's hospitals.My analysis of primary evidence draws on recent work in children's and emotional geographies, history of medicine, and architectural and design studies. This interdisciplinary project pushes the boundaries of design history by revealing the complex role of non-architects and, in particular, women, as key design agents the development of modern wellbeing spaces.