Feminist Housing with Angela.D
How can housing be feminist? How can we design housing that starts from care, equality, and autonomy, rather than market logics and individual ownership? What does it mean to build living environments that reflect women’s realities, and what can feminist perspectives teach us about collective living in the city? On Thursday 11 September, PAF invites Angela.D to Antwerp for an evening exploring feminist housing. Angela.D is a Brussels-based feminist collective highlighting how housing acts as a social marker of inequality between men and women. They work to influence fair policies on housing access for women and reduce barriers that hinder independence. Since 2018, this collective of activists, sociologists, urban planners, and architects has collaborated on projects that rethink housing from an intersectional feminist perspective.
During this evening, Angela.D will share how their work began at the intersection of feminism and housing activism and how they have translated these ideas into practice through projects like CALICO (Care and Living in Community). In this project, in collaboration with CLT Brussel among others, Angela.D created 10 homes for women in precarious situations and for older women, systematically integrating gender issues throughout the process. Their insights are now being applied in several new housing projects.
Our guest speakers of Angela.D will speak about collective care, organising beyond the nuclear family model, and creating housing that supports autonomy while resisting isolation. Drawing from their guides Une approche féministe du logement and Timmeren aan gelijkheid binnen sociale huisvesting, Angela.D will share practical lessons and tools for working towards feminist housing, for architects and urban designers, policymakers, housing professionals and engaged citizens seeking to drive change in the housing field. We will also discuss how these practices can inspire feminist housing practices in Flanders.
Program
19:00 – 19:30 Walk-in with coffee and tea
19:30 – 19:45 Introduction
19:45 – 21:00 Talk by Chloé Salembier, Katrien Van Capellen, Giulia Caterina Verga and Alice Larsimont (Angela.D)
21:00 – 21:30 Small group conversations
21:30 – 21:45 Reflections and collective closing
21:45 Drinks and aftertalk
The event will be held in English, but you are welcome to join the conversation in Dutch or French. We will do our best to offer ad hoc (whisper) translations if needed.
About Angela.D
Angela.D is a non-profit organisation launched in 2018. It is a multidisciplinary collective of activists, urban planners, architects, sociologists and continuing education facilitators. Its aim is to draw attention to housing as a social marker of inequality between men and women, to contribute to a fair policy on access to housing for women and to reduce the obstacles that hinder their independence.
Today, Angela D. focuses on three areas: developing feminist housing (including projects like Sororité et logement, Fem’s, and the renovation of the Ghandi Towers), training housing professionals in gender-sensitive practices, and nurturing its own community through activities that strengthen collective action and solidarity among women.
The name Angela.D refers to Angela Davis, an African-American human rights activist. It is also an abbreviation for Association Novatrice pour Gérer Ensemble le Logement et Agir Durablement (Innovative Association for Joint Housing Management and Sustainable Action).
About the speakers
Chloé Salembier
is a board member of Angela.D and a professor at the LOCI Faculty of Architecture and Architectural Engineering at UCLouvain.
Alice Larsimont
is project manager at Angela.D.
Katrien Van Cappellen
is a board member of Angela.D and resident of Calico.
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Giulia Caterina Verga
works as an architect and urban designer as part of the Brussels based cooperative Karbon' architecture et urbanisme. She is also a researcher at the ULB, where she teaches. She has developed projects on an architectural and urban scale in Belgium, where she currently lives.
Tickets
Free / €5 / €10 / €15 (pay what you can)
Please choose the ticket price that suits your situation best.
Pre-registration is required via the link below.
Everyone is welcome to join this conversation. No prior knowledge is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to reflect together on how we can rethink housing to serve care, equality, and collective autonomy. As always at PAF, we create a warm, open space where every voice is welcome.