This project seeks to address the need for collective understanding and coordination to address housing financialisation and the inequalities that derive from it. The project aims to create a space where grassroots groups, researchers and practitioners can share knowledge, compare experiences and identify effective approaches for making the financialisation of housing visible and contestable.
The project will explore how participatory and creative tools, such as community research, legislative theatre and counter-mapping, can support local movements and contribute to shifting urban policy. There will be a particular focus on approaches that democratise data and make complex financial systems understandable and actionable from below.
Objectives:
- Create shared, participatory spaces for learning and knowledge exchange. Recognising the fragmented and isolated nature of local responses to housing financialisation, this objective aims to cultivate inclusive, accessible learning environments.
- Build cross-regional collaborative networks to challenge housing financialisation. In response to the global but uneven impacts of financialised housing markets, this objective seeks to create lasting connections between AFSEE fellows, LSE academics, grassroots activists, artists, and practitioners from Latin America and Europe.
- Co-produce and disseminate accessible and actionable knowledge tools. Drawing on the practices of activists, artists, and community organisers, the project will experiment with participatory and creative methods of knowledge production that prioritise accessibility and visual and narrative power.
Project Members
Dr Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo-Molina
Co-founder, Institute of Studies on Inequality (INDESIG)
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