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SUMMARY:Housing  / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°1
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DESCRIPTION:Emanuele Coccia\nEMANUELE COCCIA\nBringing the Planet Home. No
 tes on the Future of Domestic Topology\n\nLong forgotten by architectural 
 theory\, domestic space is the prism through which to rethink the future o
 f the planet. It is by imagining new homes that we will be able to rethink
  a new politics\, a new nature\, a new idea of society.\n\nPhilosopher and
  lecturer at EHESS\, Emanuele has been a visiting professor at the univers
 ities of Tokyo\, Buenos Aires\, Düsseldorf\, Columbia and Harvard. He is 
 the author of La Vie sensible\, The Life of Plants\, Métamorphoses and P
 hilosophie de la maison.\n\n— \n\nThis lecture is part of the lecture s
 eries "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"\n\nFor the Fall Lecture
  Series\, the School of Architecture at the EPFL has gathered six housing 
 projects that address affordable housing in an exemplary way. Each guest w
 ill present one project and explain in detail what it means to produce goo
 d and affordable housing from commission to inhabitation. The aim of these
  lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable housing\, but rat
 her to show how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible
 . The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - 
 author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce t
 he house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities tha
 t can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.\n\nIn
  the last decade\, housing is back in the architects’ agenda. Yet\, rene
 wed interest in housing corresponds to a historical moment in which\, more
  than ever\, housing is considered a commodity to be bought\, sold and ren
 ted rather than a space to inhabit. While in the hey-day of the welfare st
 ate\, legions of architects – often employed by the state – had the ch
 ance to develop large-scale housing complexes\, and to experiment with unp
 recedented possibilities in terms of typology and technology\, today affor
 dable housing is reduced to few interventions in a desolate sea of commodi
 fied urbanization. Yet\, in spite of these hostile conditions\, some recen
 t housing projects have managed to reformulate what affordable housing can
  be in the 21th century. Although these projects do not match (yet) the sc
 ale and quantity of their 20th century predecessors\, they are innovative 
 especially in terms of how people can live together more collectively and 
 by allowing new types of households\n\n 
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