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SUMMARY:Neighbours: Book Launch: Ioanna Piniara\, We Have Never Been Priva
 te / LAPIS\, TPOD\, THEMA\, HITAM
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DESCRIPTION:Ioanna Piniara\nWe Have Never Been Private\nThe Housing Projec
 t in Neoliberal Europe\nIoanna Piniara\n\n\nABSTRACT\nThe transformation o
 f the concept of the private within the socioeconomic regime known as neol
 iberalism has severely impacted the management of domestic space. Housing 
 privatization has emerged not merely as a policy in the 1980s to promote n
 ew contractual relationships\, but as a post-war urban strategy to establi
 sh a change of ethos\, culture and organization of housing. Ioanna Piniara
  posits the neoliberal housing project within a constitutive historicizati
 on of the private since antiquity which subverts the neoliberal idea of th
 e term’s institutional and typological autonomy. She argues that the sta
 te has constantly partnered the market (‘private sector’) in the promo
 tion of a certain pedagogy of domestic privacy and\, therefore\, the priva
 te has hardly existed ‘as such’ in the neoliberal era. Her typological
  study sheds light on the links between the private narrative and the cons
 truction of class subjectivity\, the idea of home-ownership and the symbol
 ic function of the urban form. Connecting to a rich literature on the comm
 ons\, Piniara proposes a shift from the economy towards an ecology of the 
 private as the possibility of achieving a quality of being private through
  practices of commoning.\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY\nIoanna Piniara is an architect an
 d researcher holding a PhD in Architectural Design from the Architectural 
 Association (AA). Her research interests include the study of domesticity 
 as a biopolitical device for the control of bodies and identities\, the sp
 atial implications of economy\, institutional power and policy in the desi
 gn of urban housing as well as narratives for the decolonization of housin
 g typologies and urban forms. Ioanna has been a seminar tutor at the AA\, 
 a post-doctoral fellow of the ‘Architectures of Order’ research cluste
 r at the Goethe University Frankfurt and is currently teaching design and 
 theory seminars at the Architecture School of the National Technical Unive
 rsity in Athens. She is also the author of “The Housing Question is a Fe
 minist Question: Housing Commons for the New Woman of the German Werkbund
 ” by M Books (2025).\n 
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