Worlds of Homelessness

Ghenoiu, Erik, Masha Hupalo

| “Worlds of Homelessness” | Symposium | Los Angeles, CA | Fall 2019

Worlds of Homelessness is an interdisciplinary engagement with the issue of homelessness, participation, inequality, gentrification, racism, and migration. Worlds of Homelessness brought together local and international artists, architects, scholars, and others in an effort to create a platform to share ideas, thoughts and to present their work, as well as examining different ways of engagement with the many questions related to the topic. The project was conceived by Goethe Institut in cooperation with the Los Angeles Poverty Department, who, for decades has worked with Skid Row artists; the Thomas Mann House, SCI-Arc, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and art gallery Navel.

View more details:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/de/kul/wir/woh.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIVVipQjpI

The panel at SCI-Arc was dedicated to the following questions:
How can homeless communities engage and be engaged successfully to find strategies that the communities can find beneficial themselves? How have architects successfully engaged with the houseless communities? How can community-driven processes be integrated into the actual design solution? How can educational institutions, such as schools of architecture, successfully connect to such initiatives?

Participants: Darin Johnstone, Darin Johnstone Architects, Los Angeles, CA
Alexander Hagner, gaupenraub +/-, Vienna, Austria
Thorsten Deckler and Tebogo Ramatlo, 26’10 south architects, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ana Elvira Vélez, architect, Medellin, Columbia
Moderator:Carlos Zedillo, director at PienZa Sostenible, Mexico City, Mexico

Images courtesy of Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and Khalid Farqharson

Partner: Goethe-Institut Los Angeles