Get Ready for Housing and the People: Part Two
Next weekend on April 9th, Open House Worldwide will present our second festival, Housing and the People. Over the course of 12 hours, the festival will take you across five continents to visit innovative and inspiring housing projects that prompt us to consider how we live together.
In March we shared some resources to get us thinking about housing around the world. Here we present another set of films, articles and podcasts to prepare for the festival. Don’t forget to let us know your own suggestions via Twitter or Instagram.
This is the second of a two-part series of recommended resources. Check out part one here.
WATCH
A documentary by Daniel Schwartz for the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Broadcasting now on e-flux
When We Live Alone explores the ways in which we live alone together in contemporary cities. The unprecedented rise of urban dwellers living on their own challenges normative ideas about home and raises questions about how this change in social structure and lifestyle affects cities as a whole. This is the second in a three-part short documentary series, conceived by Giovanna Borasi, directed by Daniel Schwartz, and produced by the CCA. The first part, What It Takes to Make a Home, considered the role of architects in tackling homelessness and was broadcast as part of the first Open House Worldwide festival in 2020.
Refugee Heritage by Decolonizing Architecture Art Research
A talk for The World Around
Decolonizing Architecture Art Research recently nominated the Dheisheh Refugee Camp to become a World Heritage site. Recognising the refugee as a subject in exile expands beyond narratives of displacement and suffering. With their work architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti aim for architecture to be mobilized as an agent of political transformation.
READ
“Minnette de Silva: the brilliant female architect forgotten by history”
Shiromi Pinto, The Guardian
Shiromi Pinto’s article for the Guardian explores the life and work of the visionary Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva, whose Senanayake Flats in Colombo we will be visiting as part of Housing and the People.
“How City Life Transformed Ghana’s Compound Houses”
Yinka Ibukun, CityLab
Accra’s compound houses brought a rural typology for communal living to the growing city in the 19th century. Find out how the houses are faring in the city today in this article by Yinka Ibukun, as part of CityLab’s excellent series on iconic home designs around the world.
LISTEN
A Home of Our Own
A radio series by Lynsey Hanley
Lynsey Hanley’s radio documentary series for the BBC explores Britain's broken housing market through the stories of ten very different homes and their occupants.
For more on housing around the world, don’t forget to register for Housing and the People, a free festival by Open House Worldwide on April 9th 2022.
