Reframing the Housing Question
After discussing the idea of house and home, this course will discuss the housing question and different kinds of policies, programmes and projects undertaken from around the world. It will also discuss emerging questions of housing in relation to contemporary urbanisation. The course will also delve into technicalities of housing tenure, finance, planning, delivery systems and its form.
Course Faculty: Prasad Shetty, Rohit Mujumdar, Rupali Gupte, Shreyank Khemalapure
26 November 2022: WHAT IS A HOME?
0900-1100: Landscape as Home: Houses in pastoral economies
1130-1230: City as Home: Houses in merchantile / idustrial economies
1500-1700: House as Home: Houses in the post industrial economies
03 December 2022: THE HOUSING QUESTION
0900-1100: The Housing Question in the Last 50 Years: Affordability, tenure security and habitability and cases of large housing programmes
1130-1230: Rearticulating Housing from an Urbanisation Perspective
1500-1700: Key Housing Ideas / Initiatives in the Last 100 Years from Around the World
10 December 2022: THE QUESTION OF MASS
0900-1100: Migrants, Refugees and Urban Displacement
1130-1230: Landscapes of Informality and Emerging Urban Form
1500-1700: Community and Infrastructure Questions
17 December 2022: HOUSING MANAGMENT
0900-1100: Policy, Regulatory Regimes and Bylaws
1130-1230: Delivery Systems, Tenurial Mechanisms and the Question of Finance
1500-1700: Possibilities of Incrementality and Repair