Reimaging the Housing Crisis Symposium
Description
There is a housing crisis globally, especially in large metropolitan areas.
Addressing this housing crisis is urgent. While specific focus and tools differ, there is a convening narrative that frames the housing problem primarily as a supply problem. This narrow statement undermines the multifaceted, multi-level, multi-temporal, and multi-sectoral factors that compound the prolonged housing crisis. These include, for example:
· The systematic nature of the housing system,
· the rhymes and sub-regional market dynamics,
· the politically and racially loaded decision-making,
· the often-stereotyped demand and design constraints, and
· the growing hyper-local embeddedness of the housing sector, intertwined with global financial flows and geopolitical struggles.
This Symposium, co-organised by the Bartlett UCL and Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Melbourne University, aims to capture, unpack, and upfront, these emerging, and sometimes ‘untraditional’ causes in order to propose new pathways of actions.
Please come along to this free event, and help us ‘Reimaging the Housing Crisis’.
Date: Thursday 15th Jan 2026
Venue: Seminar Suite A; Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Zoom Link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89975981143?pwd=4noi3vTJ6d9L8NmwNWyVARNxbWbL9g.1&from=addon (Password: 796442)
Preliminary running order:
Time | Sessions |
9-9.45am | Door Open & Registration |
9.45-10am | Welcome |
10-11am | Session 1: A ‘Housing Crisis’ Research Conversation |
11-11.20am | Tea Break |
11.20-12.20am | Session 2: Reimaging the crisis in Research Panel Discussion |
12.20-1.30pm | Lunch Break |
1:30-2:30pm | Session 3: A ‘Housing Crisis’ Practice Conversation |
2:30-3:30pm | Session 4: Reimagine the Crisis in Practice Panel Discussion |
3.30-3.50pm | Tea break |
3.50-4.50pm | Session 5: Going Forward |
4.50-5.00pm | Concluding remarkets |
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