ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the shift in the practices of caring from one solely centred at a medical centre in which the self-care practitioner has a large role. This change has an impact on one's identity through a transformation of the everyday environment as part of integrating into one's practice. The chapter proposes enskilment manoeuvres as the careful movements between users and designers in crafting potentials that recognize the differences between them allows the juxtaposition to recast assumptions. It explores the work practices of being a patient and the role skilled perception plays in building relations between artefacts, knowledge and social relations. The chapter draws upon various observations and interviews conducted with people doing the work of self-care at home as well as a project encountered as a supervisor of a master student working in user-centred design. Maintaining relations finds ways to integrate social relations with perceptions and identifying needs is about the immediacy of our bodies in the environment.
