A reminder of an upcoming workshop at Oxford Brookes University. Please note that the deadline for expressions of interest is this coming Friday 3rd May. 

Best wishes,

Mel

Micro-Living Scoping Workshop

 

 

Organisers: Ella Harris, Goldsmiths; Mel Nowicki, Oxford Brookes University

Thursday 20th June 2019, 10am-4pm

Oxford Brookes University

 

Micro-living is becoming an increasingly normalised, and even celebrated form of housing across both public and private sectors. This includes both positively branded forms of micro-living such as the London based co-living company “The Collective”, and forms of shrinking living space understood as more sinister, such as the “coffin cubicles” phenomenon in Hong Kong.

 

We have identified micro-living as an increasingly prolific, yet under-theorised, development in housing landscapes across a wide range of contexts and are looking to develop a grant exploring this growing global phenomena.

 

The central purpose of the day is to bring together scholars across multiple disciplines who are working on, or interested in, micro-living. We are open to new ideas but also keen for participants to reflect on the following themes around micro-living:

• The emergence of micro-living and its socio-economic/political contexts
• The lineages of micro-living (e.g. communal housing, eco-homes)
• The links between micro-living and precarious labour (including co-working)
• Micro-living and the stunted life-worlds of millennials
• Micro-living’s aesthetics and the roles of social media in branding and promoting micro-living
• Differences and comparisons between micro-living presented as aspirational and more sinister shrinking housing spaces

 

Participants are invited to bring to the workshop either examples of micro-living that they are currently working on, or case studies they are interested in discussing.

 

Spaces at the workshop will be limited to ensure a small and productive working group.

 

Aims of the workshop:

 

• Identify global themes and case studies related to micro-living
• Identify relevant/interested scholars
• Identify potential research frameworks, methods and impacts
• Produce an initial grant outline
• Develop action plan and timeframe for preparing grant proposal

 

A post workshop dinner will be funded by the organisers. We have a limited travel budget for those attending from outside Oxford. Please ask for details.

 

Interested participants should submit a brief bio, and short statement (no more than 300 words) outlining their experience of and/or interest in micro-living.

 

Expressions of interest should be submitted to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by no later than Friday 3rd May. 

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