Articulating care and responsibility in design : a study on the reasoning processes guiding health innovators’ ‘care-making’ practices
Fiche du document
12 février 2021
- handle: 10670/1.99uvgb
- doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2020.100986
Mots-clés
Design practice Ethics Innovation CareSujets proches
Care and treatmentCiter ce document
Lysanne Rivard et al., « Articulating care and responsibility in design : a study on the reasoning processes guiding health innovators’ ‘care-making’ practices », Papyrus : le dépôt institutionnel de l'Université de Montréal, ID : 10.1016/j.destud.2020.100986
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
This article explores how health innovation designers articulate care and responsibility when designing new health technologies. Towards this end, we draw on Tronto’s ethic of care framework and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) scholarship to analyse interviews with Canadian health innovators (n=31). Our findings clarify how respondents: 1) direct their attention to needs and ways to improve care; 2) mobilise their skill set to take care of problems; 3) engage in what we call ‘care-making’ practices by prioritising key material qualities; and 4) operationalise responsiveness to caregivers and care-receivers through user-centred design. We discuss the inclusion of health innovation designers within the care relationship as ‘care-makers’ as well as the tensions underlying their ways of caring and their conflicting responsibilities.