Talk
Power Walk: Architects For Social Housing
13 Apr 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
free, booking required through Eventbrite
Address
- West Carriage Drive, Hyde Park
- London
England - W2 2AR
- United Kingdom
As part of Hito Steyerl's project, Architects for Social Housing (ASH) lead a walk to explore how increasing privatisation and legislation affects our ability to access the city and how these changes contribute to the housing crisis.
About
ASH responds architecturally to London’s housing ‘crisis’. They organise working collectives of architects, urban designers, engineers, housing campaigners to offer support, advice and expertise to residents who feel their interests and voices are increasingly marginalised by local councils or housing associations during the so-called ‘regeneration’ process. Their primary responsibility is to existing residents – tenants and leaseholders alike; but are also committed to finding financially, socially, economically and environmentally viable alternatives to estate demolition that are in the interests of the wider London community.
The walk will last approximately 1.5 hours, with time for refreshments and discussion afterwards at Serpentine Galleries.
Influenced by the Situationists' dérive, the Power Walks programme brings to life the Actual RealityOS data, highlighting issues around social housing, low wage work, histories of resistance and the accessibility of the city. The three walks and a tour have been created in conversation with campaigns, community groups, and organisations local to the areas surrounding the Serpentine, and will take place throughout the duration of Hito Steyerl's Power Plants exhibition. Each walk and tour tell a story of the hidden and not so hidden inequalities from the point of view of those most affected.
