Care Aesthetics: For Artful care and careful art (2023) by James Thompson

The Care Manifesto (2020) by the Care Collective

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care (2020) by Madeleine Bunting

Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life (2022) by Yuriko Saito

Who Cares: the hidden crisis of caregiving, and how we solve it (2023) by Emily Kenway.

Art and Care: A platform interested in research, pedagogy and community-based practices

Claire Cunningham and her Choreography of Care

‘Who Cares?’ by MOHA (The Netherlands)

Artful Dementia: a Citizen Science Research Lab by the Arctic University of Norway

Sue Mayo’s Breaks and Joins project

Rebecca Swift and Entelechy Arts

Fevered Sleep’s project ‘Care is’

Sensing Spaces of Healthcare (Bristol University)

Care for Music by University of Exeter and University of Bergen

Music in Mind

Introduction to Care Aesthetics: a recorded zoom webinar.

James Thompson presents ‘Care Aesthetics’: a recorded webinar for Hobby School of Public Affairs (Houston, USA)

Book Launch for James Thompson’s Care Aesthetics: a recorded online event, co-hosted by the CREATE Centre at the University of Sydney, the Arts and Health Research Group at the University of NSW, and the Arts Health Network.

‘Gestures’ by Fevered Sleep: a short video to encourage creativity around touch in a care home. The driving question was: ‘“what gestures and invitations of touch can we offer each other at a time when touch is limited and disparaged?”

‘8 Tender Solitudes’ by Fevered Sleep: a meditative exploration on the themes of touch, solitude and care during the pandemic.

James Thompson and members of the Care Aesthetics project are busy co-editing a series with Routledge, ‘Studies in Care Aesthetics’.

This brings together cutting-edge research in care and its interactions with disciplines across humanities and arts. Building on the existing work of applied theatre and socially engaged arts, this series provides textbooks, research and practitioner texts in the growing field of care aesthetics. Books in the series will include, therefore, titles such as ‘care aesthetics and dementia or ‘care aesthetics and the arts’ – and then new topics such as ‘care aesthetics and disability studies’ or ‘care aesthetics and design’. The ambition of the series is to draw on the growing interest in this emerging field, developing new texts that deepen our understanding of the aesthetics of care and the implications this has more broadly for health, social care, and the arts.

For more information, and to pitch a proposal, please get in touch.