Solidary City - How do we want to live together?

Housing is a basic need of all people, but access to housing is only granted to social groups in very different ways. This fundamentally raises questions about the affordability and equitable distribution of housing, which become more acute in the face of social inequality, lack of participation, climate emergency, and ongoing environmental degradation. How can intersectional justice approaches and a new culture of caring in architecture and urban planning (better) redeem our claim to housing as a human right?

And also: what instruments are available to us in reality to concretely implement and permanently guarantee affordable housing in Bremen and elsewhere? What helps when land is
becomes scarce, the building an investment object, and the apartment a trap that reinforces gender roles instead of breaking them down? What is the significance of conflicts between civil society actors and local or state governments in order to achieve the goal of a Solidary City? How can we actually plan in a demand-oriented way in the sense of cooperative urban development and advocate for more participation and democratization also in the building and planning sector?

Panel discussion with:

Gabu Heindl, architect and urban planner in Vienna, professor of urban planning at the Nuremberg University of Technology. Teaching at the AA London, author of numerous publications on urban conflicts, socio-ecological housing policy and justice as an urban planning parameter, among others. Gabu Heindl formulates a radical democratic approach to architecture, which she applies in theory and practice.

Lisa Vollmer, cultural scientist and urbanist in Berlin and substitute professor for urban planning at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Lisa Vollmer's research includes housing and social movements, and currently urban co-production, local negotiation processes, and the common good. In Berlin, she has been active in the tenants:inside movement for years.

Gabriele Nießen, State Councilor for Urban Development and Housing at the Senator for Housing (SKUMS) in Bremen. During her term of office, the Urban Development Plan (STEP) Housing 2030 has been revised, which formulates a comprehensive catalog of measures for producing and securing affordable housing, among other things with the help of cooperative building land development and with various purchasing strategies.

Solidary city - How do we want to live together?

Tuesday, 6/28/2022 at 6:00 p.m.
Bremen Center for Building Culture (b.zb)
Am Speicher XI, 1
28217 Bremen
Überseestadt

Free admission.

An event project of the Hafenmuseum Speicher XI Bremen, the Bremen Center for Building Culture (b.zb) and the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender/research field wohnen+/-ausstellen.

Registration is requested by phone 0421 / 30 38 279 or e-mail info@hafenmuseum-speicherelf.de.

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 Photo: Elodie Vittu / Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU)