ACE Lunch Lecture In between Cali, Kassel and elsewhere: on thinking and teaching about housing

Invitation ACE Lunch Lecture 28.04.2026 online 12:00 PM (COT) / 7:00 PM (CEST)

In between Cali, Kassel and elsewhere: on thinking and teaching about housing

What do we understand by the term social housing? Our understanding of it varies depending on location and socio-political reality. The "social" element is introduced through different instruments depending on place and geography, sometimes more successfully, sometimes less. In Germany, for example, the social obligations tied to social housing have expired over time, which has led to a shrinking stock of affordable housing rather than a growing one; Colombia, by contrast, largely operates today on a public-private partnership model. In our next lunch lecture, we enter into a dialogue between Kassel, Germany and Cali, Colombia.

Professors Liliana Andrea Clavijo Garcia and Felipe Hernández from the Universidad del Valle and the University of Cambridge offer insights into their multi-year summer school on the topic of peripheral housing in Cali and share their findings with us. For even though the understandings and realities differ greatly, they all share one thing in common: the search for the right to (affordable) housing for everyone. Together, and through open discussion, we will reflect on how to think and teach housing, and on how, as varied as it may be, it can also be connected across locations.

Link:

https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/j/65956406825?pwd=0WfND3VYKSv3MXU3cxbsgTd8KDta4J.1

Meeting-ID: 659 5640 6825

Kenncode: 704916