On May 3rd, Prof. Nadja-Christina Schneider will hold a lecture about Memory, Housing Architecture and Everyday Life. For further information, please view the event poster: https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/querschnitt/medialitaet/dwelling-together_nadja-christina-schneider_03may2023.pdf

How does a newly built housing estate become a home for a family and its members?
How do its architecture and design shape the family and neighborhood relationships as well as forms of living together and therefore also the biography of the residents - even long after they have left this home?

Rohan Shivkumar’s documentary film Lovely Villa: Architecture as Autobiography (2019) examines these questions using the example of the LIC Colony designed by Charles Correa in Borivali, one of the city districts in northwest Mumbai. In 1974, as a young boy, Shivkumar moved into an apartment complex there, which was completed at the beginning of the 1970s with the title name ‘Lovely Villa’.

In my presentation, I will  introduce this poetic and complex film and discuss, among others, the question of memories of previous inhabitants, memories that become embodied both by the houses and current dwellers, as Lovely Villa seems to suggest.

The lecture & conversation series DWELLING TOGETHER brings together filmmakers and scholars working on questions of affordable housing in times of market-driven construction and lack of building land; architecture and infrastructure that enables humans (and potentially other species too) to live 'well' together - in cities, peri-urban or in rural regions.

Wednesdays, 6-8pm at HU Berlin (in-person) room 315 (third floor) at IAAW, Invalidenstr. 118

Lecture and Conversation Series | Summer Term 2023

26.04. Dwelling in New Spaces
Tuba İnal-Çekiç (HU Berlin & Off-University)

03.05. Memory, Housing Architecture and Everyday Life
Nadja-Christina Schneider (HU Berlin & RePLITO)

10.05. Film screening: Kanade - a documentary about the
architects Shankar and Navnath Kanade (2021)
by TEEPOI collective with the two directors & producers
Karishma Rao and Vishwesh Shiva Prasad

17.05. Living Together or Living Separately?
Indian University Spaces and their Neighborhoods
Anna Schnieder-Krüger (HU Berlin)

24.05. Homelessness and Homemaking
İclal Ayşe Küçükkırca (HU Berlin & Off-University)

31.05. Tracing Vignettes of Srinagar's Old City Through a
Memory Lens
Arshi Javid (HU Berlin)

07.06. Socio-Spatial Negotiations of the Highly Skilled
Indian Migrants
Dhara Patel (TU Darmstadt)

14.06. Commoning the Mahalle. The Neighborhood
as Urban Commons
Julia Strutz (HU Berlin, RePLITO & Off-University)

21.06. In the Company of Plants
Hilal Alkan (Leibniz ZMO Berlin)

28.06. Non-Humans and the Postcolonial City
Veena Hariharan (Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi)

05.07. Houshamadyan Archive and (Digital) Archiving
Vahé Tachjian (FU Berlin)

12.07. Non-Humans and the Postcolonial City

Veena Hariharan (Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi)

For further information please take a look at the poster of the lecture series: https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/querschnitt/medialitaet/dwelling-together_final-version.pdf