We invite you to join us for this symposium co-organised by 3S member Casper Laing Ebbensgaard as part of the Housing Future research project to share your experiences of housing and discuss the future of housing in Norwich on Thursday 14th March 2024, 12-5 pm, at Anteros Gallery (11-15 Fye Bridge Street, Norwich, NR3 1LJ)!

The symposium will be facilitated by Out There Arts an is open to all esidents and those interested in housing from across the city. Together we will define the state of housing in Norwich today, and build a plan for where it needs to be. The events uses an Open Space method to facilitate conversation and collaboration in a balanced way, where the attendees set the agenda. Over the course of the event, participants are encouraged to discuss their experiences and hopes for housing in Norfolk, sharing and learning from one another. Conversations will be captured through illustrations and creative outcomes to share the collective vision of those attending.

To make the event comfortable for participants, we will be providing food, drinks, and the opportunity to continue the conversation after the workshop through a drink’s reception. We are also providing creche services for attendees if they are needing childcare facilities.

Advance registration here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=lYdfxj26UUOKBwhl5djwkHtKOgiMJbVOl3yc_vnmBEJURTRXV1RJWUtaSEc4MTk5VlRMQ1BXTDRDWi4u

About the Housing Futures project

The symposium forms an integral part of the Housing Futures research project that seeks to assess the current experiences of housing in Norwich and Great Yarmouth and collectively imagine the potential of housing in the future. Through recognising the often-overlooked power imbalance within housing landscapes, the project will engage with ordinary people and communities to realise a shared vision of how housing could be socially and environmentally just. This community-led knowledge sharing engages with housing activists and community organisations alongside housing delivery organisations and designers.

As Norwich is internationally renowned for the design of energy efficient and low-cost social housing, seen in Goldsmiths Street and Suffolk Clayfield, it is important to reflect on the meaning, potential and politics of social housing. Despite innovative technologies, design techniques and expertise in housing development that promise the delivery of socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable housing in East Anglia, the region (still) underdelivers the housing is needed. Accordingly, the project seeks to establish relations between diverse community members working on improving housing (such as architects, planners, local housing activists, Tenants and Residents Associations and community groups) to generate more socially and environmentally just housing policies and planning processes in the future.

The project is initiated by the Just Housing Alliance, a Norwich based research collective out of University of East Anglia, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Accelerator Award.