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Online Registration now open for Global Dwelling 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:

§  The existence of common driving forces influencing the contemporary habitat in different cultures.

§  The recognition that dwelling as a subject-matter inevitably brings together various scales, disciplines, and areas of expertise.

§  The challenge of adopting inclusive approaches to identify housing needs and to find appropriate solutions.

 

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.

 

Booking Form

Please book no later than Friday 10^th June 2016.

Please book online at: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/global-dwelling-conference.php

Online Payment options available.

 

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