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This edition of Social Talks builds on the housing movement that has gained a new momentum. As a prelude to the Housing Futures weekend, in which conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living will take place, the discussion during this evening will rethink how to document and preserve spatial, social and political strategies for current and future generations. What ways are there to document and preserve the tactics, practices and spaces related to alternative housing?

As the housing movement gains new momentum, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Independent School for the City are planning Housing Futures: a weekend of conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living. Housing Futures will provide a platform to discuss everything from the future of squatting to the rise of new models for cooperative housing. While the weekend had to be postponed due to the coronavirus regulations (new date to be confirmed), one important discussion will take place online on 3 February.

In this conversation, we will rethink how to document and preserve spatial, social and political strategies for current and future generations. What ways are there to document and preserve the tactics, practices and spaces related to alternative housing? The event will discuss the role of the archive and archiving as a long-term strategy, and examples of both autonomous and institutional archives. From annotating and anonymising information, to using documents in (legal) processes, and the collective caretaking of archives.

With contributions (tbc) by Tashina Blom (ERC_ReACT, Utrecht University), Louwrens Botha and Philippa Driest ( Pension Almonde), Eef Vermeij (International Institute for Social History), Annet Dekker (UvA, Media Studies), and the Housing Futures collective (René Boer, Setareh Noorani, Katía Truijen), Jantje (Hotel Mokum), Simone Rots (Independent School for the City) and others.

Housing Futures

The Independent School for the City and Het Nieuwe Instituut are organising the two-day gathering Housing Futures, a weekend of conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living. Housing Futures hopes to give a push to the new movement, with fresh insights and practical advice on future living and on recording and archiving the rise of cooperative housing.

Social Talks

The Social Talks series offers more insight into themes from the exhibition Designing the Social: 100 Years of Idiosyncratic Living in the Netherlands. The multi-year exhibition examines how Dutch society has been redesigned over the past century.

More information: https://bit.ly/3eTtIUn.

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This is an online event. Join the event on Zoom.