The Caretakers’ Residency is a long term-project that studies the practice and philosophies of collective care led by Elizabeth Woods & Kevin Leong.

This began with the observation that many of the most urgent and intractable global crises are not due to unforeseen circumstances, but to the systemic failure in forming or maintain care relationships, whether these be related to the environment, politics, the media, technology, culture, education, or health. The project will follow the proposition that community members vocationally involved in collective and radical care have distinct understandings of and approaches to these crises, and it aims to study how these care practices and aspirations. In later project stages, these studies will provide provocations for future community action and projects.

As part of their foundational study and research, Kevin and Elizabeth are meeting with and interviewing Collective Caretakers in the local Dublin 8 community.