This two day international symposium aims to bring together activists, practitioners and researchers responding to housing inequality to explore the global and historical interconnections of the housing crisis and its localised consequences.
6-7 June 2019 Grand Parade Main Building
This is a free event, please register here
In contemporary society, the so-called housing crisis and inequality surrounding access to housing is a central theme in public debates. The current hyper-commodification of the housing market, the dismantling of the social rent sector and mass-scale dispossession do not only entail an unequal distribution of housing, but also reflect the conditionality of access to the right to home.
The event will address contemporary debates of:
– Gentrification, dispossession and displacement
– Social housing, stigma and exclusion
– Private rental sector and commercialisation of homes
– Homelessness and criminalisation
– Squatting, housing cooperatives, alternative homes and new utopias
Confirmed speakers include:
- Tom Youngman and Laura Barrio, Coordinadora de Vivienda de Madrid
- Václav Orcígr, Charles University, Prague
- Kyla Ellis-Sloan, University of Brighton
- Taina Meriluoto and Paula Puranen, Tampere University, Finland
- Steph Grohmann, University of Edinburgh
- Sam Bergum, University of Sheffield
- Ana Vilenica, London South Bank University
- Wendy Charlton, Social Practice Artist
This event is jointly hosted by School of Applied Social Sciences, School of Humanities and Radical Futures Housing Forum
