Housing Imaginations assignments 1 & 2, 2016

The Housing  Imaginations assignments 1 and 2 info are as follows:

Assignment 1 - presentation

•The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate that you can link the conceptual material we have covered in the module with a specific example

•The key themes of the module I want you to think about are place, space and the housing imagination

•You should select an ‘artifact’ which serves as an example of one or several of these key themes.

•We might think about the ways in which social housing in represented in the media, books, art, film….

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•How is it discussed by politicians and policy makers?

•What are it’s “socially produced discourses”

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Is this different in other societies? Is the “social housing imaginary” different in Sweden or France for example? Why?

•This was just a quick example, you can chose anything relating to ‘housing imaginaries’ or the place and space of housing.

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•Your artifact could be a piece of music, a book, a paining, a newspaper article or anything else

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•Your focus does not need to be social housing, it could be homelessness, home ownership, home improvement or something else

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•You will need to go into more depth than I have in this example

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 is an essay of 2500-3000 words and is worth 50% of overall marks of the module.

Choose from one of the following questions:

·       Critically discuss the assertion by Doreen Massey (1992)  that  homes, like all ‘places’, are open to, and created by, the social relations which extend beyond them.

·       To what extent does the concept of ‘place’ provide a useful; basis for understanding the dynamics and conflicts surrounding home-places?

·       In what ways is the housing imagination gendered and classed?