Caring: Making Commons, Making Connections

This chapter aims to open up some questions around care and the production of 1 architecture and space. I consider both the spatiality of care and how care as a practice might involve working with different concepts of space. Following feminists thinkers and activists, especially Maria Mies, Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Silvia Federici and architect Leslie Kanes Weisman, I explore how such concepts have, historically at least, structured dominant value systems that marginalise and disavow care labour. Through this discussion I want to make a case for the importance of including care within our understandings of architectural production, to highlight a critical yet often unseen relationship between space, architecture and care.