The Terms of Habitation

3/03/2022, h. 15:30
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Edificio 12, in presenza a invito
Piattaforma Webex

Housing Discourse in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

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The discussion is developed in the context of a collaborative research that aims at enhancing architectural discipline’s involvement in housing debates by addressing the terms of habitation.
Developing specific research strategies and methodologies that take terminology as point of departure could bring about new insights into housing architecture and open new perspectives in housing history. The act of terming is context dependent, but terms also migrate and translate across geographical spaces, historical periods and disciplinary languages, producing new meanings and triggering new ideas and practices. It is therefore important to investigate terminology in multiple perspectives, by bringing together various contextualized experiences in research practice.
The presentation brings about an insight from the former Socialist Bloc. It focuses on several topics of housing history in socialist and postsocialist Romania, exploring them through the lens of a selected key terms. It stresses the importance of investigating architects’ discourse and exploring the way they labelled and developed specific concepts in their reflection on housing architecture. Eventually, the discussion addresses the topics that Gaia Caramellino and Dana Vais are developing in their collaborative project at the Politecnico di Milano.
The collaboration is a follow-up of the project “Retheorizing the Architecture of Housing”, co-initiated by Gaia Caramellino and supported by the IIAS in 2019.

Relatore: Dana Vais – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Introduce: Massimo Bricocoli
Discussant: Gaia Caramellino, Ákos Moravánszky, Pierre-Alain Croset, Alessandro De Magistris, Paolo Scrivano, Luka Skansi

Responsabile: Gaia Caramellino