CareKit: The right to heal Part 2 Project 2025 Drew Rumgay University of Dundee | UK For the majority of us, life’s defining moments will be spent in a medical facility, from the birth of our children to the death of our loved ones. The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, however, is extremely distressing and access to healthcare is severely limited. Nearly 60,000 people have lost their lives with upwards of 140,000 more sustaining injuries, 25% of which are life-altering. Meanwhile, attacks on health infrastructure have rendered the majority of facilities inoperative, while those that remain are severely overburdened.Drawing from Peter Kropotkin’s philosophy of mutual aid, this thesis therefore focusses its attention away from the institutionalised hospital model. Instead it explores, through extensive evidence gathering and professional input, the potential of decentralisation to increase preparedness, improve resource efficiency, and ensure equitable access, particularly in low-resource settings. The resulting project – CareKit – is a prefabricated modular building system capable of being scaled, adapted, or redeployed in response to shifting needs. Its circular design approach reduces material waste and maximises resource efficiency by enabling components to be disassembled, relocated, and reused. Louis Sullivan’s doctrine that “form ever follows function” is inherent in hospital design. Yet over time, function changes, shifts and adjusts, therefore so must form. Tutor(s)