Who Cares
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2022/2023
Artist: Leyla Salih
Dimensions:
Other: 295 × 210 mm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Medium: Paper
Object number: MISC.2023.1163.CC.2
DescriptionProject publication
Description from the designer: “Who Cares” designs an infrastructure of care to be spread throughout the city, dedicated to those who care for and maintain it. The project questions labour ethics and their precarious relationship to the space we provide for carers, more specifically, in how these spaces are dignified—how they give care back. Here we begin to create a design language; an infrastructure of care through this prototypical project, using King’s Cross as a laboratory.
The site has been developed as an observed route created with and for maintenance workers and designs through specificity and the centring of these workers' varying definitions of dignity and care. The proposition unfolds into a series of co-designed spatial interventions, which seek to equalise representation and respect. Understanding care through the eyes of those who maintain the city allows us to transgress the boundaries of what we consider ‘care’ to be within spatial production, tempting a shift in its definition and an expansion of its application.
Description from the designer: “Who Cares” designs an infrastructure of care to be spread throughout the city, dedicated to those who care for and maintain it. The project questions labour ethics and their precarious relationship to the space we provide for carers, more specifically, in how these spaces are dignified—how they give care back. Here we begin to create a design language; an infrastructure of care through this prototypical project, using King’s Cross as a laboratory.
The site has been developed as an observed route created with and for maintenance workers and designs through specificity and the centring of these workers' varying definitions of dignity and care. The proposition unfolds into a series of co-designed spatial interventions, which seek to equalise representation and respect. Understanding care through the eyes of those who maintain the city allows us to transgress the boundaries of what we consider ‘care’ to be within spatial production, tempting a shift in its definition and an expansion of its application.