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Subject: [artinfo] HdKW: call for applications for Wohnungsfrage
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Wohnungsfrage Academy
The Housing System

October 22-28, 2015

Open call deadline: June 1, 2015

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
D-10557 Berlin

<mailto:housing at hkw.de>housing at hkw.de
<http://www.hkw.de/en/>
<http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2015/wohnungsfrage/wohnungsfrage_start.php>www.hkw.de

The housing question is universal. Everywhere, it speaks differently
but directly to the challenges that define our times: inequality,
ecological crisis, displacement, refuge, migration, privatization and
more. Against this backdrop, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (HKW)
aims to rethink the housing question in terms of a global housing
system. During the century and a half since Friedrich Engels
published the series of articles titled "Zur Wohnungsfrage" what was
once a housing question became a global system. This housing system
is at the center of the theoretical and practical approach of the
Wohnungsfrage Academy directed by Reinhold Martin (Buell Center,
Columbia University) in collaboration with Nikolaus Hirsch
(co-curator of HKW's project Wohnungsfrage). Over the course of one
week, the Academy will bring together scholars, practitioners,
artists and other experts from various fields and disciplines and
provide the context for cross-disciplinary inquiry of this system.

Encouraging new modes of transdisciplinary discourse and research,
Wohnungsfrage forms the frame of the Academy. It investigates the
relationship between architecture, housing and social reality. In an
exhibition of experimental housing formats, a series of publications,
a discursive public program and the international Wohnungsfrage
Academy, the project aims to stimulate the discourse on social,
affordable and self-determined housing. The Wohnungsfrage program is
curated by Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn, and Hila
Peleg and will initiate a collaborative process among international
and local actors in architecture, urban planning, politics, art,
science, and activism.

The term "housing system" describes a transnational, relational
field, a network of interactions that cannot be reduced to official
policies, architectural typologies, or market imagery. Neither does
it refer to unspecified "global" connections. Instead, it can be seen
as a highly specific, highly differentiated mixture of laws,
politics, investments, activities, objects, proposals, practices, and
imaginaries, held together-and apart-by infrastructures of all sorts:
technological, financial, social, institutional, and spatial.

The Academy has three basic goals. The first is to provide
participants with the analytical tools to recognize the housing
system and to see it at work in any of its parts-in a single block, a
single building, or a single room-anywhere. The starting point is to
learn how to read different subsystems and deal with complexities.
The second goal is to identify the particular hegemonies-the modes of
power and of exploitation, the inequities and the exclusions-that
guide the system. Thirdly, it aims to open the imagination to
possible alternatives and to the means by which these might be
discussed in a critical fashion. These insights will be used to test
possibilities of practical action. Together with 16 tutors, 60
Academy participants will examine in detail a series of examples,
excerpted from the housing system, from all over the world. The
participants will interpret this material in different formats and
constellations; they will analyze it; they will add to it; they will
isolate facts and compare values; they will narrate histories; they
will debate assumptions; they will test hypotheses; they will outline
strategies.

Applicants
This call is addressed to doctoral students (or equivalent) from a
wide range of disciplinary backgrounds as well as highly motivated
advanced master's degree candidates or advanced professional degree
candidates. Postdocs are also encouraged to apply and the call also
extends to researchers and actors from outside of academia, including
initiatives from civil society, the arts, and politics.

Procedure
All applications must be submitted by June 1, 2015. Applicants must
submit a CV and a brief description of their interest in the housing
system in general-as well as the Academy in particular-and name a
reference person.

Funding
No tuition is charged for participation. The participants are
expected to procure their own travel funding. A very limited number
of need-based travel grants can be provided. Please indicate and
specify your need in the application.


Contact
For further questions or information, contact:
<mailto:housing at hkw.de>housing at hkw.de
Press contact: Anne Maier
T +49 30 39787 153 / <mailto:presse at hkw.de>presse at hkw.de




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