We look forward to welcoming you to Vulnerable Housing: Margins, Belonging, and the Politics of Home, taking place on 2nd June, 5pm–7pm at the Boardroom, 1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge. This session focuses on the marginal conditions through which home, security, and belonging are produced and experienced—and what it might mean to approach these conditions with genuine compassion, rather than mere functionality. Bringing together perspectives on displacement, social housing, and housing at the margins, the discussion considers how housing systems shape everyday life for those navigating precarity, exclusion, or limited domestic autonomy. Central to this is a critical examination of resilience: when architectural thinking asks vulnerable people to adapt, exercise agency, or self-advocate, who bears the weight of that expectation? We hope the session will reimagine what care, dignity, and belonging could look like in the spaces we design.
Guest Speakers
Dr Lilian Chee, National University of Singapore, Abi Stoltzfus, World Habitat
Respondents
Prof Flora Samuel, Dr Carolina Vasilikou
Chairs
Rachel Sim and Jojo Jenner, PhD Researchers
Our sessions take the form of story circles—an intimate format that moves away from the conventional lecture. Open to all, registration at the door. A recording of the event will become available at the UNFOLD website.