Care and The City Encounters with Urban Studies
Caring about writing a book about Care and the City in the advent of a global pandemic has not been an easy task to undertake, particularly when the empirical evidence of the book is grounded in the time before the pandemic started. From an external perspective, this book could not have found a more appropriate moment to surface, as the relevance of intensifying debates around care have been newly affirmed across the globe, highlighting the need to link thoughts on urbanization with ways to make sense—spatially and otherwise—of phenomena of care and ‘uncare’ in and beyond cities worldwide. From an internal perspective, writing a book about care means acknowledging the labor, dedication, and support of those who helped the ideas and words find a form to make sense in a meaningful way. The starting point for this book was an international urban studies conference titled CARE—Cities, Action, Research, and Education in Vienna in 2019, jointly led by the publication’s editors. The three-day academic event was hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at the Future Lab of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning of Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) in Austria. It took place in the course of the three-year KTH & TU Wien Visiting Professorship in Urban Studies, a joint endeavor of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space and the Centre for the Future of Places at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm in Sweden. The research themes and scholars affiliated with the program in its funding period between 2019 and 2021 have been: Urban Citizenship: Public Space, Post-Migrational Perspectives, and Civic Innovation (2019: Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University, Israel and Henrik Lebuhn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany); Urban Productivity: New Public Space, Youth Integration, and Labor Market Access (2020: Kim Trogal, University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, United Kingdom); and Urban Generations: Public Space, Aging Society, and New Health Conditions (2021: Marie Glaser, ETH Zurich, Switzerland). This visiting professorship program has been set up as an educational project at the interface of research and teaching, with the aim of developing and implementing innovative and internationally oriented research-led teaching curricula focusing on public space, and strengthening international academic exchange in the field of urban studies and beyond by fostering a cross-cultural perspective on urban development and patterns of urbanization. The program focuses on a contemporary ‘critique of everyday life’ and of ‘lived space’ related to planning, architecture, and urban design education. Hence, it fosters the introduction of contemporary research-led curricular structures to enhance student skills and understanding of urban life and of humanist aspects of urban development while acknowledging accounts critical of the Anthropocene.
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