Changing ‘homes’, gender-specific adaptations and the future of urban planning responses

There are strong gender and intersectional dimensions to ‘the changing roles of home’, since women have been severely impacted by the wellbeing and welfare challenges of the pandemic, particularly those living in the most deprived conditions. Current norms of ‘home’ as places mostly for family tasks have been challenged (Holliss, 2021), and as those boundaries were eroded, homes became also simultaneously the place for working, caring, educating and isolating. This has significant implications for built environment disciplines and at various scales (from micro to macro). It also has international significance as such challenges are as true in London, as they are in Delhi, Nairobi or Sao Paulo. 

The seminar will explore how ideas and activities associated with ‘home’ have changed as a result of the pandemic, and what lessons should be learnt that can help to shape the future directions of planning policy, practice, and research. The goal is to reflect on how urban development responses, at various scales, might be shaped through co-produced innovative ideas amongst international knowledge holders with cross-cutting insights of developing and developed home experiences.

Organisers

• Lauren Andres, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
• Lucy Natarajan, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL

Format

All are invited - this is an open event for practitioners, students & researchers.