Reading Assembly: Care is a curatorial research platform that connects grass roots community groups, artists, educators, academic researchers and students from different departments of the University of Reading (Art, Film, Theatre, Television, Architecture) to come together as co-investigators on urgent issues around ‘care’. The project is based on a long term engagement of various research groups who act as co-investigators of the theme of care in their own terms.

To care means different things for different people. There is often a great difference between the way governments measure and evaluate care work for instance, and the way we care in our everyday lives. The project aims to make every day ‘acts of care’ visible through different socially engaged artistic practices, working at the intersections of art, care and social research.