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Conference Announcement and Call for Participation:
THIRD OIKONET CONFERENCE
GLOBAL DWELLING: Sustainability - Design - Participation
Date: Friday 23 September 2016, Manchester, UK.
The third OIKONET conference on “Global Dwelling” will be hosted by the Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture, School of Art, Design and Fashion, University of Central Lancashire. The first OIKONET conference
was organized by La Salle School of Architecture in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2014. This third conference will showcase the results obtained in the three years of activity of OIKONET intertwining research, pedagogy and community participation around the
topic “Global Dwelling”. During this period OIKONET partners have been involved in the design and implementation of pedagogic and research activities which have brought together schools of architecture and planning, research groups, professional organizations
and local administrations.
GLOBAL DWELLING
The recognition of the global dimension of dwelling in contemporary societies is based on the following assumptions:
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The existence of common driving forces influencing the contemporary habitat in different cultures.
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The recognition that dwelling as a subject-matter inevitably brings together various scales, disciplines, and areas of expertise.
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The challenge of adopting inclusive approaches to identify housing needs and to find appropriate solutions.
In accordance with this approach to the notion of global dwelling, the third conference will examine the following themes:
Theme 1: Sustainability of housing environments
The problem of sustainability has been widely recognised as a priority by governments, civil society and businesses across the world.
Theme 2: Innovation in housing design and planning
Processes of housing design and production are increasingly more global due to the networking of knowledge, professionals and organizations.
Theme 3: Participation in housing design and construction
During the last few decades, achieving the participation of citizens in the processes of housing design and construction has been an objective for professionals and policy makers in many countries around the world.
Call for participation
We invite researchers, lecturers, design studio instructors, policy makers, practitioners and community leaders, involved in the research, teaching, design and provision of housing, from unit/building to urban and regional scales, to submit original papers
and posters addressing one of the conference three themes and considering, among others, the following questions:
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What are the challenges facing sustainable housing environments and communities, globally?
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What is the future of public rental housing and its affordability?
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What are the alternatives to gentrification as driver of urban regeneration?
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What are the lessons learned from mass housing renovations?
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What are the standards that should shape future housing?
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What should be changed in current architectural programmes to train architects how to interact with residents during the procurement processes of new housing?
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How can housing communities be mobilised and strategic alliances established in order to foster innovation in housing?
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How can future participatory processes learn from past experiences?
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What does “learning to dwell” mean in our contemporary world?
Keynote speakers
Becky Tunstall is the Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy and Director of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York. The Centre carries out a wide range of projects on current housing
issues for government departments, housing associations, third sector organisations and academic research councils (see
www.york.ac.uk/chp). Becky's current major studies include Co-Motion, a study of the built environment, mobility and wellbeing for older people,
a study of the interaction between housing circumstances and poverty over time, a project on barriers to employment for women housing association tenants in London, and an investigation of the long-term impact of housing quality on health in Scotland. She
teaches on social enterprise and on global urban social policy.
Iván Tosics is one of the principals of Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI), Budapest. He is mathematician and sociologist (PhD) with long experience in urban development, strategic planning, and housing policy and EU regional policy issues. Since
2011 he is one of the four Thematic Pole Managers of the URBACT programme. He teaches at the University of Pécs, Department of Political Studies, Doctoral School. He is vice chair of the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR), executive committee member
of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). He is the Policy Editor of the journal ‘Urban Research and Practice’. He was part of the consortium performing for DG Regio the study on the use of housing interventions from European Regional Development
Fund (ERDF) resources.
Papers
We invite the submission of abstracts (maximum 350 words) that will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee. Authors with accepted abstract will be required to submit a full paper following the deadlines detailed
on the website.
Poster session
We also invite submission of posters from non-academic organisations such as Housing Associations and Housing Developers to showcase housing projects, initiatives and innovations. Additionally, abstracts that
are not accepted for paper presentation will have the opportunity to be presented at the poster session.
We encourage PhD students to present a poster about their research work.
Templates will be provided for the paper and poster.
For more information about the conference including submission of abstracts and posters, please contact us at:
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Or telephone: +44(0)1772892650
Or visit the Website:
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/global-dwelling-conference.php