The crises that cities face—such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and
racism—are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses …

ABSTRACT A housing crisis was already plaguing communities long before the COVID-19
pandemic began, further accelerating the need for effective housing solutions. Building on a …

The pandemic has heightened anxieties, impacted mental health and threatened to create
an overwhelming sense of existential dread. We recognise the material ways in which …

This position paper presents a 'prototype'research agenda for design for sustainability
transformations (DfST) in the (post-) pandemic context. COVID-19 has made visible …

Abstract After the Global Financial Crisis, activists and scholars have turned to collective
forms of housing as a strategy to decommodify housing. We argue that housing cooperatives …

In 2017, it was estimated that over 87,000 families—around 270,000 people—lived in
squatted properties in Spain. Such figures, often used by the media to stigmatise residential …

Urbanisation is changing landscapes, social relations and everyday lives across the globe.
But urbanisation is also changing the ways democracy is understood and practiced …

Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This
Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how …

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home's severe inadequacies, which
take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across …

Non-market practices and institutions make up much of every economy. Even in today's most
developed capitalist societies, people produce things that are not for sale and allocate them …