Roundtable on Collective Housing

The roundtable is part of the European tour of the European Collective Housing Award, which highlights high-quality examples of collective housing. The aim of the roundtables, held in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, and Sarajevo, is to broaden the discussion on housing issues and connect architects, researchers, policymakers, activists, and community representatives.

At the roundtable at MAO, participants will address both historical approaches to solving housing issues and the contemporary challenges faced by European cities, through the lens of Ljubljana’s transitional identity as a city located on the ever-shifting border between Central and Eastern Europe. The discussion will also explore what lessons from the past can help us tackle today’s housing challenges.

Participants

Urban Jeriha, Director of IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies

Wenwen Cai, Director of Arc en Rêve centre d’architecture in Bordeaux

Dora Kavčič, member of the Slovenian housing cooperative Zadrugator

Mária Topolčanská, teacher of Housing Theories in Prague

Anja Planišček, professor of architecture and cooperative housing expert

Martina Malešič, curator and researcher at MAO

The European Collective Housing Award shines a light on collective housing projects that genuinely change how people live – new constructions and renovations, public and private, from anywhere across the 46 countries of the Council of Europe – anyone can submit a housing initiative completed in 2024/25 until the 30^th April.