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Architecture and the Right to Housing

Join a distinguished panel of housing experts, moderated by the Daniels Faculty's Karen Kubey, as they envision how architects can contribute to the right to housing. The panel will raise urgent questions and discuss promising examples, laying the groundwork for future solutions.

Panelists: A human rights lawyer and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, Leilani Farha is Global Director of The Shift, an international advocacy agency combating housing financialization while upholding human rights. Paul Karakusevic is a founding partner at Karakusevic Carson, an award-winning architecture firm at the forefront of public housing design across the UK.

Moderator: An urbanist specializing in housing design and social justice, Karen Kubey has been an Assistant Professor at the Daniels Faculty since 2023. The editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018), she served as the first executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture.

This event is generously supported by the Irving Grossman Fund in Affordable Housing.

This event is part of the Daniels Faculty's Winter 2024 Public Program. All of the events in this program are free and open to the public. Events will be livestreamed and available to view on the Daniels Faculty’s YouTube channel

 

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