Caregivers as worldbuilders

Author

Caitlin Dippo, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Date of Award

Spring 6-4-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Architecture (MArch)

Department

Architecture

First Advisor

Amy Kulper

Second Advisor

Malcolm Rio

Abstract

Caregivers as Worldbuilders explores architecture as the relationship between people and the space that surrounds them, looking to memorials, quilts, and forms of gathering to understand how communities use care to shape their built environment. A table was built to host gatherings over the course of the spring semester. Each week new prompts, props, and prosthetics transform the table to meet the needs of those who gather. With the table as a proxy, this thesis considers the in-between spaces that relate and separate us and speculates on how architects can work with communities to gain trust, listen to what is missing in people's lives, and answer that call through care in the built environment.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Dippo, Caitlin, "Caregivers as worldbuilders" (2022). Masters Theses. 866.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/866

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