Rosa Aboy and Pablo Elinbaum with Karen Kubey
This Pan-American series will convene public keynote lectures and private workshops in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, New York, and Los Angeles. In each location, we are working with local partners to gather a dozen architects, housing advocates, academics, and people with lived expertise to debate questions of housing justice and the role of architecture. The programs will mobilize Canadian research abroad, will surface urgent questions and promising local examples, and seed further collaboration. Upcoming programs follow “Architecture and the Right to Housing in Toronto,” a March 2024 public lecture and private roundtable, and a summer 2023 pilot program in Mexico City, “Architecture and Housing Justice in Mexico.”
Proceedings of the four upcoming workshops will be published in Untapped, an open-access architecture platform. We will also present accessible and image-forward summaries of each program on a new online platform, the Architecture and Housing Justice Lab. The 48 participants across the four sites will emerge with increased interdisciplinary knowledge and collaborator connections. Following the site-specific exchanges, we will convene representatives from the four cities above, plus Toronto and Mexico City, in a virtual workshop to share best practices.
Architecture and the Right to Housing: Pan-American Program series is organized by Karen Kubey, of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto and the Architecture and Housing Justice Lab, in collaboration with local partners. Programs are sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and the Irving Grossman Fund in Affordable Housing. Additional generous support comes from Untapped and local partners.
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