9-11 October 2025, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
How do we care—through buildings, systems, and code?
In a world shaped by climate urgency, platforms, and aging infrastructures, care is no longer just a practice—it’s a design question.
On October 9–11, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft will host an international conference that rethinks care in a digital age. From homes and hospitals to platforms and planetary systems, care today unfolds across physical and digital infrastructures alike. What kinds of spaces—architectural, virtual, political—does this create?
With architects, scholars, nurses, technologists, and students in conversation, the conference opens up the design of health—not just as a space, but as a network of care.
- What does it mean to care with and through algorithms and platforms?
- How can we understand digital and physical infrastructures as agents of care?
- What metaphors and models guide architecture in a more-than-human, more-than-digital world?
Organized by Beyond Health Studies and the Design, Data, and Society Group at TU Delft, and supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), this conference invites new imaginaries for how we design, live, and heal in the 21st century.
If 20th-century architecture was structured by diagnostic tools and medical metaphors, what comes next?
Save the date: October 9–11
TU Delft
Registration is open: visit the conference website to register!
