3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4021570ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.
This is an overview of the sessions:
1. Housing and space: introduction, state of play and basic concepts;
2. Historical overview of the social-spatial paradigms in housing development in Belgium (1880-1990);
3. Excursion to social and collective housing projects in Brussels;
4. New residential tendencies and the influence of housing and city renewal policies on housing development since the 1990s;
5. The revivial of housing struggles and alternative conceptions of ownership, housing typologies and living together.
The course consists of a series of lectures, guest lectures by housing experts and researchers working on the course topics, readings and fieldwork.
1. The student is able to identify different social-spatial paradigms (historical positioning of housing projects, underlying housing and planning policies, conceptions and attitudes in architecture and urbanism) that originated throughout the production of housing in Belgium.
2. The student can explain and characterise these different social-spatial paradigms in his/her own words and frame this in a wider international perspective.
3. The student can clarify and relate basic concepts of residential and real estate production (demography, migration, housing need, - typology, - preferences, - choices, - satisfaction) and residential phenomena (financialisation, gentrification, housing crisis, collective housing, speculation and decommodification).
4. The student can detect spatial phenomena and apply basic concepts as listed in 3. in order to analyse housing projects and neighbourhoods at different scale levels.
5. The student develops a free and critically inquiring attitude in the interpretation of the production of housing.
6. Building on the acquired insights, the student is able to detect and investigate innovative solutions to organise housing in a more sustainable way.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
- Class attendance and participation (10%)
- Presentation during the excursion (20%)
- Individual paper (70%)
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Urban Studies: Standard track
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 1 (Bachelor via SCH of VRB) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 2 (Master indirect) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 3 (Bachelor of Master direct) (only offered in Dutch)