Public Talk: New Social Housing? Rethinking Research and Global Perspectives, 26.2

Public Talk 

New Social Housing? Rethinking Research and Global Perspectives

Wednesday, 26 February 2025
18:00-20:00h
TU Wien, Boecklsaal,
Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien

We are pleased to invite you to the Public Talk ‘New Social Housing?’ with featuring insights from

• Prof. Massimo Bricocoli, Politecnico Milano, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani,
• Prof. David Madden, London School of Economics, Department of Sociology,
• Prof. Raquel Rolnik, Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo.

Following their short presentations, we will engage in a discussion on the complexities of housing research in the context of today’s global housing crisis.

As a complex research field, housing includes the design of buildings, housing as a form of practice, and housing regimes and policies but, also, an ideological and epistemological component — especially when it comes to social housing. This discussion will explore key questions such as: How can housing researchers and designers bridge the gap between research and practice and develop methodologies across disciplinary boundaries? What forms of knowledge in housing design, policy, and everyday life are essential for housing research? How can a global comparative approach, considering both the Global North and South and addressing the specificity of housing, help advance housing studies?

The Public Talk is a collaboration between the Research Center for New Social Housing (TU Wien / University of Vienna / University of Applied Arts), the Research Unit Housing and Design, and the Research Unit Urban and Regional Research (TU Wien). It is organized within the framework of the Doctoral Programme New Social Housing, supported by the EXCITE-Initiative of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien.

More information here: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/new-social-housing