Sarah Pennington is a Senior Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths University and Co-Director of the Design Societies Research Unit.

'Design is never neutral. Even in its most pressingly scientific figurations, it has politics. In Care-Politics, Sarah Pennington shows readers how this political propensity unfolds through an inventive ethics, the name she gives to a feminist approach that foregrounds matters of care. Pennington urges an encounter with and through care not as an essential ingredient to design, but as an expansive orientation to its practice, pedagogy, and performance, one that critically accounts for its ethical entanglements and lived consequences.' Daniela Rosner, University of Washington

• 1. Approaching Design and STS with care2. A typology of care-politics3. Made in the name of care: Unsettling gendered caring affects4. Speculating with care: Between maintenance and the possible5. Being careful with the idiot: The story of a lost research device6. Inventive ethics and constraints of care