Marc Parés is Professor of Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB Geography Department) and head of the Research Group on Urban Governance, Commons, Internet & Social innovation (URGOCIS) at the Institute for Government and Public Policy (IGOP). Holds a PhD in Environmental Science and a degree in both Environmental Sciences and Political Sciences (UAB). From 2014 to 2016 […]
Angela García Bernardos is a postdoctoral research assistant on the project COPHAB. She holds a PhD in Public Policies and Social Transformation (2017) from the Institute of Goverment and Public Policy (UAB). Her thesis was titled ‘The Spanish Housing system after the crisis (2007-2016). Change and continuity of a model’.
Political scientist and urban planner. Eduard Cabré works as a consultant to local governments and non-profit organizations on social housing policies, and is a research assistant on the project COPHAB.
Mara Ferreri is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has a PhD in Geography from Queen Mary University of London (2013) and has worked for many years on questions of urban precarity, gentrification and temporariness.
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Presentation of the results of the Commoning Housing project at the International Symposium Diagnose 1968/2018. Critical Perspectives on the Legacy of Reform and Revolt in Architecture, Planning and Urbanism, 13-15 December, Institut of Architecture, la Technische Universität Berlin, organised by Prof. Nina Gribat & Prof. Philipp Misselwitz. The presentation was part of the session titled ‘Housing’, which […]
On the 10th of July 2018 we presentated results from our COPHAB (Housing Co-production) project at the international workshop Inclusive Collaborative Housing Futures: towards an international agenda, which was held at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. The workshop programme, organised and chaired by Dr Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia (University of Lancaster) included presentations by key scholars on collaborative […]
On the 22nd of June Mara participated in the International Association for the Study of the Commons’ Workshop ‘Social mobilization and the commons: a virtuous circle?’ (Barcelona, Spain, June 21-22, 2018). Her paper ‘From squatting to short-life to permanent co-ops: the untold story of housing commoning in London’ presented preliminary findings from fieldwork conducted in […]
On the 28th March 2018, the London archive and education space Mayday Rooms hosted the public event ‘From squats to co-ops: reflections on commoning housing’. The evening included a presentation by Mara on the little known but fascinating history of how organised squatters in early 1970s London formalised the rehabilitation and self-management of empty homes as housing co-operatives. […]
On 7th February 2018 Mara visited the Abeona Housing Co-operative in the London Borough of Camden to meet some of its founding members. The kernel of the co-operative started in the early 1970s during the squatting and shortlife housing movements in London. In 1983, it was finally registered to provide permanent low-cost co-operative housing for […]