Housing Matters

Harvard GSD

The seminar is premised on the idea that contemporary housing problems are fundamentally interconnected matters of care: the maintenance of well-being, whether personal, communal, or environmental. Architectural decisions at the scale of the housing unit, the building, and the city shape both social relations and environmental outcomes.Our present-day “polycrisis,” intersecting processes of climate breakdown, financial volatility, geopolitical instability, and worsening inequality,…