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

1850-1914年间，英国各地的城市建造了专门为治疗儿童而设计的新型健康空间。在此期间，仅伦敦就出现了十几家机构，其目的是治愈和治疗患病或贫困儿童，发展专门的医疗培训和推进临床实践。这项研究聚焦于伦敦、布莱顿、曼彻斯特、伯明翰、利物浦和纽卡斯尔的详细案例研究，利用原始档案研究，调查儿科空间是如何设计的以及为什么设计，并考虑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员--医生、科学家和建筑师--在儿科空间的生产中的工作。在这个项目中，我调查了慈善家、护理者、患者和父母被低估的观点，以更好地了解他们在决定儿童医院的设计和生活体验方面所扮演的角色。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，特别是女性，作为现代福利空间发展的关键设计代理人的复杂角色，推动了设计史的界限。

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.