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- Design Through Use for Alternative Psychiatry
Design Through Use for Alternative Psychiatry
- Abstract
- This article tells the stories of houses ‘designed through use’
in unexpected ways. These stories take place in the psychiatric
field, following the deinstitutionalisation movement.
Caregivers left asylums and decided to work together with
patients in small-scale centres in the city. Teams of caregivers
acquired existing houses, used them and transformed them
to establish new care practices. This article describes the
process of ‘design through use’ by means of a close look at
the material and mental changes that took place in the built
environment through the process of usage. These transformations
resulted from the crossbreeding with previous uses,
the actual practices, and the involved actors. This article
argues for the acknowledgment of ‘design through use’ as
an architectural heritage.
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- Citation
- d’Hoop, A. (2016). Design Through Use for Alternative Psychiatry. Social Poetics . The Architecture of Use and Appropriation, OASE, (96), 37–40. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/96/DesignThroughUseForAlternativePsychiatry
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- Editors of this issue
- Michiel Dehaene, Els Vervloesem, Marleen Goethals, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
- Design
- Karel & Aagje Martens
- June 2016
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- Technische Universiteit Delft, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Gent, Universiteit Hasselt, Team Vlaams Bouwmeester
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