Registrations are now open for the next Home Space seminar, see details below.
‘Ideal Homes?: embodiment and care across the life course’
Friday 4th October 2013 10-4pm at The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London, NW1 8NP.
This is the third in the series, ‘Home Space? Public and private in new welfare settings’ funded by the ESRC and organised by a cross-disciplinary group of academics at The Open University.
This seminar focuses on expressions and experiences of ideals of home across the life course. This will include issues around understanding and accessing the experiences of different user groups together with discussions of ideals of home past, present and future.
Different kinds of service delivery and welfare settings uphold different ideals of home. Perceptions about different life course stages of users can be seen to be part of this equation, as both the material experience of home, and ideals associated with it change radically over a life time. These experiences and ideals may depend heavily on changing circumstances of care and being cared for, fragility and vulnerability or increased agency. Such change can lead to material moves into different kinds of homes and settings. Furthermore, practices of care may be different to the ideals of care that frame both actual homes and institutions. Is it time for a radical re-think of the design of home?
This cross-disciplinary seminar will include presentations by Sheila Peace, Professor of Social Gerontology at the Open University, Rob Imrie, Professor of Geography, Kings College London, Claire Cameron, Reader in Education at Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, and architect Anne Thorne of Anne Thorne Architects.
The seminar is free but places are limited. To reserve a place please go http://www.homespaceseminars.org/index.html
There are a limited number of travel bursaries available for PhD students- also apply on the booking form.
Sheila Peace, Alison Clark and Ellie Jupp
The Open University
Dr Alison Clark
Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Dr Eleanor Jupp
Research Associate - Health and Social Care
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
http://hsc-people.open.ac.uk/e.jupp
ESRC seminar series www.homespaceseminars.org
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