The program
Explore all activities advancing the cooperative housing
Forum's opening debate
‘The paths to the right to housing’
Thursday 24 November, from 18:30 to 20:00 at the Palau Robert in Barcelona
To situate the three days of the Forum, we will expand the focus of the cooperative way to the right to housing. We will reflect on the general fit of the ways trying to ensure the right to housing, its challenges and opportunities for mutual strengthening. To discuss this we will have Carme Arcarazo of Sindicat de Llogateres de CatalunyaMartiza Buitrago of Coop57 as part of cooperative housing,, Carme Trilla president of Observatori Metropolità de l'Habitatge de Barcelona, Lucía Martín, Housing and Rehabilitation Councilor of Ajuntament de Barcelona and Doris González Executive Secretariat of Condominiums of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile.
Forum's opening debate ‘The paths to the right to housing’
Thursday 24 November, from 18:30 to 20:00 at the Palau Robert in Barcelona
To situate the three days of the Forum, we will expand the focus of the cooperative way to the right to housing. We will reflect on the general fit of the ways trying to ensure the right to housing, its challenges and opportunities for mutual strengthening. To discuss this we will have Carme Arcarazo of Sindicat de Llogateres de Catalunya, Martiza Buitrago of Coop57 as part of cooperative housing, Carme Trilla of Fundació Habitat3 as part of social housing foundations, Lucía Martín, Housing and Rehabilitation Councilor of Ajuntament de Barcelona and Doris González Executive Secretariat of Condominiums of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile.
European context of cooperative housing
Thursday November 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. online
To place the cooperative way in the European context, the Network of Cities for Collaborative Housing (NETCO) will offer a debate on public policies for the promotion of the model between Barcelona, Berlin and Amsterdam. The session will also include an introduction on research comparing the situation on the continent. The session will be held in English online and with separate prior registration.
The three days of the Forum
Friday
Door opening
Registration and coffee
9.00 – 9:30
HALL Auditori
Forum’s opening
Participants
● XES and REAS
● Mr. Álvaro Porro, Commissioner for Social Economy, Barcelona City Council
● Mr. Josep Vidal, General Director of Social and Solidarity Economy, Government of Catalonia
9.30 – 10:00
Auditori Ciutadella
Integral public policy program at the municipal level. The example of Barcelona
Participants
● Lucía Martín, Councilor for Housing and Rehabilitation, Barcelona City Council
● Álvaro Porro, Social Economy Commissioner, Ajuntament de Barcelona
● A member of XES
10.00 – 10:50
Auditori Ciutadella
Public policies and regulation at the regional level. The experience of Catalonia
Participants
● Marina Berasategui, Secretary of Housing and Social Inclusion, Government of Catalonia
● Josep Vidal, General Director of Social and Solidarity Economy Services, Government of Catalonia
● A member of XES
10.50 – 11:40
Auditori Ciutadella
Coffee break
11.40 – 12:10
HALL Auditori
Public policies in the sphere of the State. The experience of the Spanish State.
Participants
● Javier Martín Ramiro, Director General of Housing and Land, Ministry of Housing, Spain
● Maravillas Espín Sáez, Director General of Self-Employment, Social Economy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, Spain
● A member of XES
12.10 – 12:40
Auditori Ciutadella
The approach of a comprehensive policy from different levels of administration
Participants
● Javier Buron, Management of the Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation of Barcelona, Barcelona City Council
● Marina Berasategui, Secretary of Housing and Social Inclusion, Government of Catalonia
● Javier Martín Ramiro, Director General of Housing and Land, Ministry of Housing, Spain
● Members of XES and REAS
12.40 – 13:30
Auditori Ciutadella
The social and community production of habitat in Abya Yala. The Chilenean experience
Participants
● Doris González, Executive Secretariat of Condominiums of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile
13.30 – 13:45
Auditori Ciutadella
Lunch break
13.45 – 15:00
HALL Auditori and Cafeteria UPF
Debate between municipalities
Participants
● Lena Vidal, cooperative housing specialist at Oficina d’Habitatge de la Diputació de Barcelona
● Ricard Torres, Urbanism specialist at Ajuntament de Manresa
● Arturo Prades, Councilor for housing at Ajuntament de Calonge
15.00 – 16:15
Auditori Ciutadella
Barcelona Declaration
Protocolary act to demonstrate the political commitment with the promotion of grant of use housing cooperatives between the different levels of the administration.
Parliaments of XES i REAS and representatives ofBarcelona City Council, the Government of Catalonia and the Government of Spain supporting the Declaration.
17.15 – 18:00
La Xarxaire, Pg. de Joan de Borbó, 11. BCN
All day
Across Catalonia
Saturday
Meeting point
Registration and coffee
9:30 – 10:00
Parc de la Ciutadella
Get together dynamics between communities
Relaxed space to make visible the number and diversity of housing communities, as well as to strengthen the links between them.
10:00 – 11:30
Parc de la Ciutadella
Walk to Plaça Sant Jaume
Walk from Parc de la Ciutadella to Plaça Sant Jaume.
11.30 – 12:00
Walk in the street
Public demand
Gathering and talks in defense of the Cooperative way for the right to housing
12.30 – 13.30
Plaça Sant Jaume
Lunch
–
11.40 – 12:10
By the city center
Start of afternoon sessions
Different activities organized in 4 axes:
A. Affordability and inclusiveness
B. Community infrastructures
C. Care and older people
D. Sustainability and energy transition
15.30 – 19:00
Campus UPF, Ciutadella
Affordability and inclusivity challenges of cooperative housing
Participants
● Glòria Rubio, La Dinamo
● Migress
● Blanca Valdivia, Punt 6
15:30 – 16:30
TBC
Cooperative co-housing with vulnerable people. Who includes who?
Participants
● Maria Josep, Per Viure
● Cooperativa TEB
● Punt de Referència
● La Renegá
16.30 – 17:30
TBC
Feminist housing cooperatives: needs, utopias and diversities
Participants
● Punt6
● La Morada
● La solar
● La Renegà
17.30 – 18:30
TBC
Community infrastructures and rooting, opportunities for neighbour and town articulation
15:30 – 16:30
TBC
Community life, common spaces and services
Participants
● Adrià Garcia i Mateu, holon
● La Borda
● La Balma
● La Chalmeta
16.30 – 17:30
TBC
New convivial models and typological exploration of housing.
Participants
● Lacol
● Celobert
● Arqbag
● Satt
17.30 – 18:30
TBC
The process of building community: between excitement and difficulty
Participants
● Guiomar, Per Viure and Cal Cases
● Eugènia Boada, Matriu
● Elba Mansilla, La Ciutat Invisible
● Mireia Parera, Fil a l’Agulla
15:30 – 16:30
TBC
Dependency, care and architecture in senior projects
Participants
● Irati Mogollón, Matia Instituto
● Maite Sancho, Matia Instituto
● Maider Azurmendi, Matia Instituto
● Ana Fernandez, Arquitecturas del cuidado
16.30 – 17:30
TBC
Debate among sénior housing cooperatives
Participants
● Anna Corrons, Can 70
● Josep Maria Garcia, Walden XXI
● José Pedro García M, Trabensol
17.30 – 18:30
TBC
Housing cooperatives opportunity in the energy transition
15:30 – 16:30
TBC
Energy transition’s practical examples in housing cooperatives
16.30 – 17:30
TBC
Rural projects debate
Participants
● Rosa Lago, Ametxe
17.30 – 18:30
TBC
Solidary dinner
Fundraising dinner for the neighbours facing fines for stoping evictions.
20.00 – 23:00
Can Batlló, Auditori
Sunday
Door opening
Registration and coffee
10:00 – 10:30
Pati Roger de Llúria
Kickstart of morning sessions
Different activities organitsed around 3 tracks:
A. Sector structures 1
B. Sector structures 2
C. Open space for communities
10.30 – 12:20
TBC
Finding the fit for Community Land Trusts
Participants
● Angela Garcia, Cirerers and researcher at Universitat de Barcelona
● Lorenzo Vidal, Sotrac and researcher at Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University
10:30 – 11:20
TBC
Present and future of finance for cooperative housing.
Participants
● Juan Garibi, Head of Commercial and strategic development at Fiare
● Guillem Fernàndez, Head of loans at Coop57
11.30 – 12:20
TBC
Legal and normative blocking to speculating
10:30 – 11:20
TBC
Shared challenges and strategies between the right to housing cooperativism and social movements
11.30 – 12:20
TBC
Open space for communities – 1st round
Space to let relevant topics to emerge and to be adressed
10:30 – 11:20
TBC
Open space for communities – 2nd round
Space to let relevant topics to emerge and to be adressed
11.30 – 12:20
TBC
Coffee break
12.20 – 12:40
Pati Roger de Llúria
International network references
Participants
● FUCVAN (Uruguay)
● Mietshäuser Syndikat (Germany)
12.40 – 13:10
Pati Roger de Llúria
Network and strategies
Several spaces to host paralel talks of networking and strategy making at different levels (city, region, nation, state, etc).
13.10 – 14:00
Pati Roger de Llúria
Harvest and closure of Forum
14.00 – 14:30
Pati Roger de Llúria