Colloque international
habiter le care
Les 22, 23, et 24 novembre 2023

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On November 22-23-24, Belgium will host the international conference “Housing is caraing”, an opportunity to think about housing and its surroundings in the light of gender studies. Co-organized by the architecture faculties of LOCI UCL and La Cambre-Horta ULB, and by the feminist non-profit organization Angela D., the event engages in a dialogue between theories of care, the sociology of housing, the anthropology of habitat and gender studies.

The four areas of discussions are :

• social, sexual and international division of care work in and around housing;
• space of care: architecture and the gendered distribution of work;
• for a politics of care: the public problem of housing from the angle of care;
• saying care is doing care? The performativity of care in and through the architecture of our homes.

The program is built around various moments of debate and thematic discovery: conferences by Corinne Luxembourg (feminist geographer), Annie Dussuet (sociologist, expert on domestic work issues) and Jos Boys from the Matrix collective; parallel sessions featuring contributions from thirty researchers from a variety of disciplines (see AAC ): geography, sociology, urban planning and architecture; two roundtables on innovative housing projects (Casa Berta in Barcelona, Rosa in Vienna, Naast Monique in Brussels) and on public policies integrating gender and care (FUCVAM in Uruguay and Punt6 in Barcelona) and two local visits on the following themes: social support and feminism & housing production integrating care and gender.

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Programme

• Keynote lectures
• Corinne Luxembourg — Thinking in terms of geographical care (FR, EN, ES)
• Annie Dussuet — From domestic work to care, the question of private space (FR, EN, ES)
• Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative) — Gender, housing and care, then and now (FR, EN, ES)


• Parallel sessions
• Sessions 1
• Residential policies and care (FR)
• Public support policies for the ageing population (FR)
• Care work and the fabric of otherness (EN)


• Sessions 2
• Ageing people, ageing spaces (FR)
• Architecture and feminist movements (FR)
• Materiality of care spaces (FR)


• Sessions 3
• Disability and interdependence (FR)
• Care mobility and inequalities in metropolitan spaces (FR, EN)
• Care communities and collectivism (FR)


• Collegial restitution of the sessions


• Guided tours
• Feminist support
• Sister House | Guided tour of the Sister House, a shelter for migrant women, with the ‘Plateforme Citoyenne de Soutien aux Réfugié-es’ (FR)
• Circé | Guided tour of Circé, a day center by and for homeless women in Brussels, with ‘L’Ilot asbl’ (FR)
• Calico | Guided tour of the Calico (CAre and LIving in COmmunity) housing project with ‘Angela D. asbl’ (FR + EN) Integrating care and gender in housing production


• Integrating care and gender in housing production
• Beguinage | Feminist guided tour of the Brussels beguinage with Apolline Vranken (L'architecture qui dégenre asbl) (EN)
• Cité Mellery | Guided tour of the ‘Cité Mellery’, collective housing project for the elderly (1950's), with Rouchan Al-Darwich (FR)
• Cité de l'Amitié | Feminist guided tour of the ‘Cité de l'Amitié’, collective housing for disabled people (1970's), with Agie Akano Galicy (Uses&Spaces, LOCI) (FR) (FR)


• Round-table discussions
• From patriarchal to feminist housing (FR, EN, ES) — with Paula Santos (Mujeres Migrantes y Diversas – Barcelona, ES), Ingrid Shukri (Rosa – Vienna, AT), Isabel Zerboni (Uruguayan federation of housing cooperatives for mutual aid - Uruguay) and Naast Monique (Brussels, BE).
• From invisibility to public care policies — with Maïté Echaider (Gender, space and territory research group - Montevideo, UY), Roser Casanovas & Paula Santos (Collectiu Punt6 - Barcelona), Isabel Zerboni (Uruguayan federation of housing cooperatives for mutual aid - UY)


• Poster presentation

Practical informations

Dates : From November 22nd to 23rd
Place : Rue Henri Wafelaerts 47-51/1060 Bruxelles
Contact : genre-logement@uclouvain.be
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Scientific Committee

• Nele Aernouts (VUB, Cosmopolis)
• Jean-Didier Bergilez (ULB, Hortence)
• Audrey Courbebaisse (UCLouvain, LAB-Uses&Spaces)
• Stéphanie Dadour (LAU, AUSser-ACS)
• Sylvette Denèfle (CITERES) 
• Marie Durand (Unistra, LinCS)
• Annie Dussuet (U. Nantes, CeNS)
• Pierre Gilbert (Paris 8, CRESPPA-CSU)
• Hilde Heynen (KUL, LUSI)
• Anne Lambert (INED, LIST)
• Joanne Le Bars (U. Gustave Eiffel, ACP)
• Benjamin Leclercq (Unistra, LinCS, UCLouvain, LAB-Uses&Spaces)
• Emmanuelle Lenel (UCLouvain-Saint-Louis, Césir)
• Corinne Luxembourg (Paris 13, Pléiade)
• Chloé Salembier (UCLouvain, LAB-Uses&Spaces)
• Christine Schaut (ULB, Sasha)
• Lidewij Tummers (Utwente, CSTM)

Organisation Committee

• Jean-Didier Bergilez (ULB)
• Nicolas Bernard (UCLouvain-Saint-Louis)
• Marina Bigaignon (Angela.D)
• Audrey Courbebaisse (UCLouvain)
• Agie Galicy (UCLouvain)
• Justine Gloesener (U. Liège)
• Benjamin Leclercq (Unistra, UCLouvain)
• Chloé Salembier (UCLouvain)
• Chris Thiry (Angela.D)
• Magali Verdier (Angela.D)
• Apolline Vranken (ULB)