Abstract 'Materialities of care'is outlined as a heuristic device for making visible the mundane
and often unnoticed aspects of material culture within health and social care contexts, and …

The literature on social resilience lacks a precise definition of this concept and a clear
guideline on how to measure it. Particularly, social resilience at the neighbourhood scale …

Sociologists of religion have had much to say about the social structures impacting religious
belief and practice but surprisingly little to say about the physical structures that both shape …

The social sciences have mostly ignored the role of physical buildings in sha** the social
fabric of communities and groups. Although the emerging field of the sociology of …

Drawing on a socio-materialist perspective, this study analyses connections between
cultural contexts, the social situatedness of learning experiences and the material artefacts …

This dissertation is about the spatial organization of contemporary psychiatric practice, about
'healing architecture'in psychiatry. I take 'healing architecture'to represent a particular effort …

Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert die Frage, in welcher Weise gesellschaftliche Teilhabe
über und mit Architektur strukturiert wird. Dabei geht es um das Verhältnis zwischen dem …

From its beginning in the late 1970s, insights from the “Science and Technology
Studies”(“STS”) predominantly derive from dense empirical data, and “STS” research …

This article examines the interdependence of architecture and society using insights from
Science and Technology Studies. We argue that architecture is not merely a product of …

This paper makes a constructive proposal for a methodological approach for studying the
relationship between the sacred and the social. It draws on the discussion about the …