Germany. Berlin. 2015. - Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Wohnungsfrage
The exhibition title itself, first of all, refers to Friedrich Engel’s ,,Zur Wohnungsfrage’’ article series. Wohnungsfrage as a cross - disciplinary program explores the possibilities of social and self - determined housing. Population growth and demographic change, individualization, capitalism and the development of urban areas. It is cruelly determined who can and who cannot afford housing by the market. Houses are no longer built to live in, most of today’s new buildings are for the sake of investment and speculating on rising property prices and rents. It is related to the gentrification problems too, some of those who originally rented in city centers can no longer afford to pay the high rents, and find themselves pushed out to the urban fringes. The housing question concerns every individual, but it also concerns us as a society too: What kind of housing do we want? Who determines its architecture? What opportunities do we give immigrants, refugees, families with children, elderly people, intellectual workers, who do not possess the necessary capital? Wohnungsfrage looks at the housing question not from the point of view of the planners and the city administration, but ,,from below’’, from the perspective of those affected by the problem.