Ethics and Risk: Doing Design Research with People in Care Homes

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Drawing on doctoral research that is currently in progress within two care homes for older adults, this paper makes an argument for participatory approaches to design research and explores how a situated and social understanding of risk is required to develop an ethical approach to design research in this field. Within this it is argued that researchers working with marginalised groups should not only be aware of the risks that group might face but be sensitive to potentially competing perspectives on risk. Secondary literature encompassing design as well as health and social care is used to frame some of the issues arising in the fieldwork before moving on to develop insights about the potential for design to provide an ‘ethic of care’ that can respond to tensions around risk and potentially recast these as a creative and constructive opportunities.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th European Academy of Design Conference
EditorsLouise Valentine, Joanna Bletcher, Leon Cruickshank
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Pages683-694
Volume22
EditionSupplement 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 May 2019
EventEAD2019 Dundee : Running with Scissors - The University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Apr 201911 Apr 2019
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Publication series

NameThe Design Journal
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Volume22
ISSN (Print)1460-6925

Conference

ConferenceEAD2019 Dundee
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityDundee
Period9/04/1911/04/19
Internet address

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • design
  • ethics
  • risk
  • care home
  • older
  • elderly
  • residential care

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