Sascha Delz, "Co-op Urbanism – A Co-operative Response to Common Myths of Housing Production"

Date: 

Monday, October 3, 2022, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 112 Stubbins (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

This talk is an affirmative call for counteracting pervasive myths of housing provision and urban production through (limited equity) co-operative practice. It argues that many reasons for our chronic inability to provide affordable and adequate housing and urban environments derive from rather exclusionary forms of ownership, limited frameworks of private and public actors, setups of collaboration, constrained ways of fostering innovation, and a restrictive understanding of housing – and the city for that matter – as a financial resource.

Based on recent research and examples of (limited equity) co-operative practices from all around the globe, the lecture makes the case that the co-operative model has a vast potential for not only questioning and rethinking existing setups, but also ultimately providing alternative, more inclusive, and innovative solutions for housing delivery and urban development.

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