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
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