1.5 ConEd Learning Hours

4:00 p.m.‐5:30 p.m.

There is a worldwide shortage of housing. Dignified housing is a human right, and also a product that is scarce and under pressure from regulations, the green transformation, and increasing costs. Triggered by the need of the Netherlands government to build one million homes, globally active architecture and urbanism practice MVRDV has published research to find ways to solve the housing crisis outside the traditional boundaries. This talk will explore the research and show best practices in customized collective housing, creating communities, fighting polarization, affordable dwellings, sustainable homes, family-oriented neighbourhoods, participatory designs, new lifestyles for the elderly, and ways in which housing could be instrumental for nation-building.

Learning Objectives
1. Learn other ways to solve the housing crisis beyond building more.
2. Understand housing as a tool for society, mixing people of different socio-economic backgrounds and creating buildings transformable for future developments.
3. Learn about pioneering in free urban planning, replacing urban regulations with gamification.
4. Understand new typologies of housing.

Jan Knikker
Partner Strategy and Development
MVRDV
Partner and director of strategy at MVRDV, Jan Knikker joined the practice in 2008. Prior to this, Knikker shaped OMA’s public image for nearly a decade, after having first began his career as a journalist. He now drives business development and public relations efforts at MVRDV, spearheading a large and dynamic studio that also includes the office’s visualization capacity. He further leads the office’s branding efforts and expansion into new regions and typologies by supporting the office’s ambition to generate solutions to global challenges through a multifaceted approach to architecture, urbanism, and computing.