Скачать или смотреть BK Talks: 7 Billion at home. Housing in a fully urbanized Planet

Where is home? What is home? The answer to this apparently simple question is an existential struggle to millions of people who remain excluded from one of the main achievements of the so-called civilized world: the right to housing. Most of those disallowed from such basic human right live in low and middle-income countries, and their number is doomed to increase over the next three decades. With an estimate growth of 2 billion new urbanites by 2050, more than 500 million new dwelling units need to be provided in cities – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Evidently, this process will have a great economic, social and environmental impact in the life of humans, non-humans, the built and the natural environment.

We are constantly bombarded by a strange mix of optimistic and apocalyptic scenarios for the future of life on Earth. However, the level of detail describing the consequences of the complete urbanization of our Planet is embarrassingly shallow. For this reason, on September 22nd, BK Talks will move to the Venice Biennale with the objective of elaborating on this year’s conversation: “How will we live together?”.

Moderated by Dr. Nelson Mota, one of the curators of “Housing the Urban Invisibles”, on show at Palazzo Mora, this edition of BK Talks will discuss what it means to be at home for people living in different parts of our world. The discussion will engage a panel of design educators, scholars and practioners with a global perspective on the topic of housing. The discussion will put a special emphasis on policies and design strategies for communities whose right to a decent home has been systematically denied by policies that have turned housing a human right into a commodity. What can design educators, researchers and practioners do to tackle the permanent housing crisis? What needs to change in design education, scholarship and practice to promote strategies enabling housing for all, resulting into a World where everyone can feel at home, regardless of their backgrounds?

The BK Talks are part of The Public Programs of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, and is a platform for those involved in the fabrication of the city to share their ideas about the understanding, conception and production of the built environment.

Held every Thursday evening throughout the academic year, the Public Programs include the BK Talks and the Berlage Keynotes, as well exhibitions, workshops, seminars and colloquia. These events are aimed at connecting our faculty, students and scholars with the myriad disciplines and cultures that shape our world, with an eye towards cultivating public activities beyond the Delft Campus.

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