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Social Talks #2

Housing Futures: Archiving Tactics

This edition of Social Talks builds on the housing movement that has gained a new momentum. As a prelude to the Housing Futures weekend, in which conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living will take place, the discussion during this evening will rethink how to document and preserve spatial, social and political strategies for current and future generations. What ways are there to document and preserve the tactics, practices and spaces related to alternative housing? 
Housing Futures: Archiving Tactics. Graphic design: Kirsten Spruit.
Housing Futures: Archiving Tactics. Graphic design: Kirsten Spruit.

As the housing movement gains new momentum, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Independent School for the City are planning Housing Futures: a weekend of conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living. Housing Futures will provide a platform to discuss everything from the future of squatting to the rise of new models for cooperative housing. While the weekend had to be postponed due to the coronavirus regulations (new date to be confirmed), one important discussion will take place online on 3 February. 

In this conversation, we will rethink how to document and preserve spatial, social and political strategies for current and future generations. What ways are there to document and preserve the tactics, practices and spaces related to alternative housing? The event will discuss the role of the archive and archiving as a long-term strategy, and examples of both autonomous and institutional archives. From annotating and anonymising information, to using documents in (legal) processes, and the collective caretaking of archives.

With contributions (tbc) by Tashina Blom (ERC_ReACT, Utrecht University), Louwrens Botha and Philippa Driest ( Pension Almonde), Eef Vermeij (International Institute for Social History), Annet Dekker (UvA, Media Studies), and the Housing Futures collective (René Boer, Setareh Noorani, Katía Truijen), Jantje (Hotel Mokum),  Simone Rots (Independent School for the City) and others.

ADM. Merel’s house. Photo by Johannes Schwartz.
ADM. Merel’s house. Photo by Johannes Schwartz.

Housing Futures

The Independent School for the City and Het Nieuwe Instituut are organising the two-day gathering Housing Futures, a weekend of conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living. Housing Futures hopes to give a push to the new movement, with fresh insights and practical advice on future living and on recording and archiving the rise of cooperative housing. 

Architecture of Appropriation

The Housing Futures weekend follows on from the research project Architecture of Appropriation which analysed six squatting community case studies in the Netherlands through architectural drawings, interviews and archived materials. Bringing together squatting movement expertise and architects, archivists, scholars and lawyers, the project discussed approaches to the research, archival practices and the representation of precarious, non-author-based, and often criminalised spatial practices in the institutional framework of an archive and museum. The project has led to different public programmes, exhibitions and publications, and is also currently presented as part of the exhibition Appropriation as Collective Resistance, which is part of Designing the Social at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

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date
03/02/2022
time
19:30 – 21:15
language
English
 
location

Het Nieuwe Instituut Online

This is an online event and will take place on Zoom. 

entrance

Free

tickets

Independent School for the City

The Independent School for the City is a postgraduate educational platform based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The school is an initiative of Crimson Historians and Urbanists and ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles) and is rooted in their practices of combining a critical and activist approach to the city with effecting real change through architectural and planning projects. Recently, the school organised the summer school, Let’s Be R€al: New Strategies for Collective Affordable Housing (2021), and Taking Back Housing! in collaboration with the International New Town Institute (2020).

Social Talks

The Social Talks series forms part of Thursday Night Live! at Het Nieuwe Instituut. The talks offers more insight into themes from the exhibition Designing the Social: 100 Years of Idiosyncratic Living in the Netherlands. The multi-year exhibition examines how Dutch society has been redesigned over the past century. This can be seen in a series of installations in the form of themed rooms exploring the ‘minimum dwelling’, the community centre, the experiments of Weverij De Ploeg, the design strategies of the second feminist wave, the squatters' movement, and digital pioneers. For each theme, separate teams of curators, researchers and designers have investigated the connections between archival research and current social issues.

Previous events

J.H. van den Broek, entry for affordable homes competition / Ontwerp Optimum, Amsterdam, 1934. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, J.H. van den Broek archive. 

The Minimum Dwelling

Social Talks #1

In the first event in the Social Talks series, we revisit the century-old concept of the ‘minimum dwelling’ in the light of today’s urgent housing shortage. Conditions and living patterns have radically shifted over the past 100 years, but could this historic formula be a solution to modern problems? With contributions by Golnar Abbasi and Arvand Pourabbasi (WORKNOT!), and Giovanna Borasi (director of CCA). The evening will be moderated by Tara Lewis.

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all activities
Editors René Boer, Marina Otero Verzier and Katía Truijen in collaboration with the communities of ADM, Plantage Dok, Poortgebouw, Wijde Heisteeg 7, Landbouwbelang and Vluchtmaat
Graphic design Graphic design: Maud Vervenne (publication), Jakub Straka with Sepus Noordmans (installation)
Design installation ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]
Photography Johannes Schwartz
Web magazine Cathy Brickwood, Aurora Bertoli

This project is part of the programme track Landscape and Interior and the folder A series on the changing landscape.