Integrated Care: From Individuals to Collective Systems – Book

Integrated Care proposes a creative and practical framework for building art spaces and institutions that can hold the realities of life as parents alongside artistic practice.

Drawing from thirteen years of organising through Procreate Project and Mother House Studios, Dyana Gravina brings together lived experience, feminist thought, embodied practice, and collective experimentation, in dialogue with practitioners and thinkers including Alex Martinis Roe, Lea Melandri, and The Purple Ladies. The book explores how care can become part not only of artistic work, but also of programming, budgets, and spatial design. Grounded in grassroots organising and attentive to how personal experience and institutional systems intersect, this book traces how change can move from intimate spaces into cultural infrastructures. 

Part memoir, part manifesto, part toolkit, Integrated Care offers concrete tools for artists, curators, and those working within cultural organisations who are willing to expand how we think about and practice access, sustainability, and shared responsibility. Many already hold care as a principle. This book supports the work of embedding it into collective initiatives and organisational systems.