Care.

Zürich, Switzerland
Care. is a research and educational project addressing care and architecture. The project was launched in 2023 in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich, focusing on non-conforming bodies to promote new forms of interdependent care through design and theory. Architecture is understood as an instrument to promote forms of care that foster interdependencies among diverse individuals and social groups. Dismantling care regimes based on unevenly distributed and often invisibilized care labour, we promote an architecture that acknowledges the multiplicity of body dispositions in social space—from ageing to neurodivergence, from gender to race. From the perspective of non-conforming bodies and acknowledging the intersectional condition of the self, Care. aims to rethink the built environment to transgress reductive heteronormative configurations of living. Care. is a team formed by Anna Puigjaner, Dafni Retzepi, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Lisa Maillard, Pol Esteve Castelló, and He Shen. The Chair of Architecture and Care is funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.