European Middle Class Mass Housing (MCMH-EU), COST Action CA18137
The main challenge of this Cost Action is to create a transnational network that gathers European researchers carrying studies on Middle-Class Mass Housing (MCMH) built in Europe since the 1950s.
This network will allow the development new scientific approaches by discussing, testing and assessing case studies and their different methodologies and perspectives. MCMH has been generally underestimated in urban and architectural studies and there is still a lack of comparative analysis and global perspectives.
The number of transnational publications and scientific meetings has also been scarce. By crossing different approaches focus on Architecture, Urbanism, Planning, Public Policies, History, Sociology new concepts and methodologies will arise.
Inês Lima Rodrigues (WG 1 - Documenting the MCMH)
Monica Pacheco (Grant Holder Scientific Representative)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
DINÂMIA’CET
FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Summary
Therefore, the Action aims to produce a wider understanding of MCMH sprawl, deepening on-going researches and focussing on the existing case studies.
The current methodologies, surveys, catalogue and contextualization allow an initial mapping of relevant case studies, their diverse degrees of resilience and how they have been adapted to current (urban and social) conditions.
It is intended to develop the knowledge of the interaction between spatial forms, behaviours and satisfaction and to combine methodologies of architectural and social analyses.
The Action will be developed by three Working Groups, coordinated by a Core Group:
WG1 – Documenting the MCMH;
WG2 – Development of a specific set of (new) concepts for MCMH analyses;
WG3 – Leverage contemporary architecture interventions and Public Policies.
In the Action will be involved researchers related to Mass Housing, MCMH Architecture and Urbanism, Planning and Public Policies, Sociological studies, Architecture History and Modern Heritage.
The main aim and objective of the Action
Therefore, the Action aims to produce a wider understanding of MCMH spread in Europe and beyond, not only by deepening on-going research and focussing on the existing case studies, but also by introducing new ones. The current methodologies, surveys, catalogue and contextualization allow an initial mapping of several relevant case studies, their diverse degrees of resilience and how they have been adapted to the current (urban and social) conditions. To accomplish these objectives, the Action relies on European partners but also on further collaboration with non-European researchers.
The target groups of the Action include three levels of end users:
One of the major Action’s tasks is sharing and crossing the available sources and studies since most information is still dispersed or gathered under different criteria. The Action aims to provide, as a major outcome, a platform for future developments by establishing an open digital database that will allow creating an MCMH Atlas. This output will remain as a future research tool, as well as a contribution to new working methodologies based on shared knowledge.
Team
Gaia Caramellino
RESEARCHER
Kostas Tsiambaos
Researcher
Dalit Shach-Pinsly
Researcher
Yael Allweil
Researcher
Els De Vos
Researcher
Yankel Fijalkow
Researcher
Ahmed El-Amine Benbernou
Researcher
Uta Pottgiesser
Researcher
Müge Akkar Ercan
Researcher
Juliana Guedes
Researcher
Marija Milinkovic
Researcher
Results
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
(2022) V COST Action “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” (MCMH-EU) CA 18137 Event, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 10-13 May (48 participants)
(2023) II International Congress on “Colonial and Post-colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 18-20 January (within the research project ArchWar)
(2021) IV COST Action “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” (MCMH-EU) CA 18137 Event,Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 20-23 October. (44 participants)
(2021) International Conference Optimistic Suburbia 2– Middle-Class Mass Housing Complexes, ISCTE, Lisbon, 16-18 June, Portugal (hybrid) (within the research project MCMH…PTDC/ARTDAQ/30594/2017 and COST Action CA18137). (12 participants)
(2021) III COST Action “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” (MCMH-EU) CA 18137 Event, 8-9 March (online) (40 participants)
(2019) II COST Action “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” (MCMH-EU) CA 18137 Conference, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning – Technion/Hadarion, Haifa, Israel, 27-30 November (74 participants)
(2019) I International Congress on “Colonial and Post-colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 16-18 January (within the research project Coast to Coast … PTDC/ATP-AQI/0742/2014)
SPECIAL ISSUES
TOWARDS DIGITAL URBAN REGENERATION: EMBEDDING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INTO URBAN RENEWAL PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT, URBAN PLANNING, 6(4), COGITATIO PRESS. Shach-Pinsly, D., (Editor.) (2021). https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/issue/view/225
THE TERMS OF DWELLING: RE-THEORIZING HOUSING THROUGN ARCHITECTURE
Academic Editors: Yael Allweil (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) and Gaia Caramellino (Politecnico di Milano)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/issue/view/259
Pottgiesser, U., Quist, W. (Ed. Chief), Milheiro, A., Shach-Pinsly, D., Vos. E., Caramellino G., Rodrigues, I., Tsiambaos K., Ercan, M., Fijalkow, Y (ed. Invited) (2023). Middle-Class Mass Housing. Docomomo n. 68, Print-ISSN: 2773-1634, Online-ISSN: 2773-1634. https://docomomo.com/docomomo-journal-68/
PUBLICATIONS
Inês Lima Rodrigues, Dalit Shach-Pinsly, Kostas Tsiambaos, Vlatko P. Korobar,[Editors] (2023).
European Middle-Class Mass Housing: Past and Present of the Modern Community. MCMH Atlas Working Group 1. Publisher: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN:978-989-781-862-2], http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29985
Els De Vos, Selin Geerinckx, Luisa Smeragliuolo Perrotta [Editors] (2023).
European Middle-Class Mass Housing LEXICON. MCMH Atlas Working Group 2. Publisher: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN: 978-989-781-864-6], http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30067.
Müge Akkar Ercan, Uta Pottgieser, [Editors] (2023). Public Policies on Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe and Leveraging Contemporary Architecture Interventions. MCMH Atlas Working Group 3. Lisbon, Publisher: Iscte-IUL. [978-989-781-863-9]; http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30031
Vlatko P. Korobar, Inês Lima Rodrigues, Roberto Goycoolea, Paz Núñez [Editors] (2023). Uncle George’s Playground. Mass Housing for Kids. Publisher: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN:978-989-781-861-5] http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29986
Влатко П. Коробар, Роберто Гојколеа, Инес Л. Родригез, Паз Нуњез [Editors] (2023). ИГРАЛИШТЕТО НА ЧИЧКО ЃОРЃИ, Колективното домување за деца. Publisher: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN:978-989-781-899-8] http://hdl.handle.net/10071/31119
Vlatko P. Korobar, ; Inês Lima Rodrigues, Roberto Goycoolea, Paz Núñez [Editors] (2023). Parque infantil do tio Jorge: Habitação para muita gente, contado às crianças. Publisher: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN:978-989-781-899-8] http://hdl.handle.net/10071/31193
Korobar; Vlatko P.; Goycoolea, Roberto; Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Núñez, Paz [Editors] (2024). El campo de juegos del Tio Jorge. Bloques de vivienda para los más pequeños Editor: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN: 978-989-781-861-5] http://hdl.handle.net/10071/32353
Korobar; Vlatko P.; Goycoolea, Roberto; Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Núñez, Paz [Editores] (2024). El parc de l’Oncle Jordi, Polígons d’habitatges per a la canalla. Català edition. Editor: Lisbon, Iscte-IUL. [ISBN:978-989-781-924-7] http://hdl.handle.net/10071/32302
ARTICLES
Milheiro, A. V. , Rodrigues, I. L., Vita, F. Cardim, J. Serrazina, B. Silva, L., Pacheico, M . (2023). Decentralising the core: notes on middle class mass housing in Portugal”. In I. Rodrigues, D. Shach-Pinsly, Tsiambaos, K. & Korobar, V. (Eds.), European Middle-Class Mass Housing: Past and Present of the Modern Community (Vol. 1, pp. 437-443). Lisbon: ISCTE-IUL. ISBN: 978-989-781-862-2. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29985
Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Rodrigues, Inês Lima. (2024) ““Neighbourhood Units” in colonial Africa: controlling the musseque through an urban model from the Global North”. In Ahmed Benbernou, Nicole De Togni, Aurore Reynaud [Editors]. Middle-Class Mass Housing: European Stories. Vol. 3: Social recompositions of Mass Housing – in press.
Rodrigues, Inês Lima, Rovira, Teresa. (2024) “Middle-class aspiration to live in the periphery? Paradigm differences in the evolution of the urban outskirts of Lisbon and Barcelona in the 1970s”. In Ahmed Benbernou, Nicole De Togni, Aurore Reynaud [Editors]. Middle-Class Mass Housing: European Stories. Vol. 3: Social recompositions of Mass Housing – in press.
Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Rovira, Teresa (2023). “Beneficios de las nuevas didácticas de la investigación para la enseñanza de la arquitectura”. In e-RUA, Vol 15, Núm. 04 Didáctica Emergente en Arquitectura, Universidad Veracruzana. México, pp. 82-94. ISSN: 2954-4149. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25009/e-rua.v15i4
Rodrigues, I. L., Shach-Pinsly, D., Tsiambaos, K., & Korobar, V. P. (Eds.) (2023). European Middle-Class Mass Housing: Past and Present of the Modern Community. Working Group 1, MCMH Atlas. Lisbon: DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte (978-989-781-862-2), http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29985
Vos, Els De; Geerinckx, Selin; Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Milheiro, Ana Vaz (2023/1). “Post-WWII Modernism with a Glaze A Comparison Between Antwerp and Lisbon”, Docomomo Journal Middle-Class Mass Housing, n. 68, pp. 8–17. (Print-ISSN: 1380-3204; Online-ISSN: 2773-1634) https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.68
