From June 4 to 6, Dublin will welcome thousands of participants committed to building concrete solutions to the global challenge of affordable housing.
Since 2019, for the CoHabitat Network, this biennial festival has been a highlight of the international calendar. It provides a unique space for dialogue between social and affordable housing providers, policymakers, researchers, local authorities, urban planners, architects, and activists. This edition focuses on the theme of “storytelling” to highlight the residents, the people, and the processes behind housing policies and construction.
Our contributions to the festival
Once again this year, the CoHabitat Network and its partners will be present in Dublin, with a series of activities, workshops, and screenings that will contribute to the collective reflection on community-led housing.
Wednesday, June 4
11:15 – 12:45 Building empowered communities through in community-led housing initiatives in Asia, Latin America and Africa – UrbaMonde – Wicklow Hall 2B
15:15 – 16:45 Advancing Community-led Housing Agenda: What is the Role of International Policy Engagements? – IIED & World Habitat – Liffey Meeting Room 3A
15:45 – 16:45 Empowering the Next Generation: Building Student Housing Cooperatives –
European Student Cooperative Housing Alliance (ESCHA) – Wicklow Hall 2A
17:00 – 18:30 Documentary screening. The America Ground: A Story of Community-Led Regeneration – World Habitat & Hastings Commons – Wicklow Meeting Room 4
17:30 – 18:45 Building Impact Networks: The Power of Communities – Fondazione Impact Housing – Liffey Meeting Room 4
Thursday, June 5
09:30 – 11:00 Collaborative Housing in Europe, success stories, experience exchange and guidance -Network of Cities for Collaborative Housing (NETCO) & urbaMonde – Wicklow Hall 1
09:30 – 11:00 Collaborative housing and decarbonisation: material and behavioural perspectives – CoLab Research, Wicklow Meeting Room 2B
10:00 – 11:00 Mietshäuser Syndikat History and Housing Model – Commoning Spaces Network – Liffey Meeting Room 4
11:00 – 12:30 How to promote and develop the housing cooperative model with the younger generations? – Legacoop Abitanti – Liffey Meeting Room 1
11:00 – 12:45 Justice through a Commons-Based Approach to Land: Past, Present, and Future of Community Land Trusts – European Community Land Trust Network (ECLTN) – Wicklow Hall 1
11:30 – 12:45 International Commons – Commoning Spaces Network – Liffey Meeting Room 4
14:15 – 15:45 How Community-Led Housing can Offer the Younger Generation Affordable Housing in Rural Areas? – South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH) – Habitat & Participation – Liffey Meeting Room 1
15:15 – 16:45 Breaking Financial Barriers: Financing Emerging Community-led Housing in Southern and Eastern Europe and the Balkans – MOBA – Liffey Meeting Room 2B
15:15 – 17:00 From Ireland to Barcelona: Shared Pathways to Affordable, Net-Zero, and Community-Led Homes – IMHAB Barcelona & Cloughjordan Cohousing – Wicklow Meeting Room 2A
17:00 – 18:00 Light Buffet with Co-op Italian Food Products Italian Cooperative Housing: Presenting the World of Italian Co-operative Housing – Legacoop Abitanti – Industry Stage
Friday, June 6
9:15 – 11:00 Establishing and scaling community-led housing cooperatives. Learning from models across Europe – Self Organised Architecture (SOA) – Wicklow Hall 1
11:00 – 12:30 Housing for Community Sustainability: The Story of Cloughjordan Ecovillage – Sustainable Projects Ireland – Liffey Meeting Room 3B
Throughout the festival
8:00 to 17:00 – Exhibition Hall
Collaborative Housing publications stand – CoLab Research
Exhibition: Telling the Story of Community-Led Housing – Self Organised Architecture (SOA)
Join us in Dublin!
We warmly invite all festival participants to join us for our workshops and screenings. Meet the people working on the ground, discover concrete alternatives, and imagine together a different future for housing.
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