RE-DWELL Summer School 2 (Valencia)

This is a report on the second RE-DWELL Summer School, held at the Universitat Politècnica de València, which follows the successful first edition that took place at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, from 15 to 20 November 2021. The third Summer school will be held at the University of Reading, in July 2023. The programme of activities of the Valencia summer school aimed at fostering the exchange of knowledge across early-stage researchers (ESRs), supervisors and non-academic organisations, on the challenges and opportunities in Inclusive co-design and community planning of affordable and sustainable housing. The theme of the summer school, “Inclusive co-design and community planning of affordable and sustainable housing”, was thus addressed from multiple perspectives including invited speakers from professional practice and academia, local administrations and a local partner organisation. The presentations were followed by insightful group discussions and complemented by site visits to the eco-neighbourhood La Pinada , and to two examples of residential housing built by cooperatives: Santa María Micaela, from the 1960s, and Espai Verd, completed in the early 1990s. The series of open roundtables that started with the Lisbon workshop in September 2021, has continued with a fourth roundtable dedicated to address the question “How can community participation in the provision of affordable and sustainable housing be guided?”. The programme of activities included meetings of ESRs and supervisors to follow-up on the development of ESR’s research as well as training activities related to two ongoing structured courses: “Comparative methodologies based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis” (RMT2) and “Entrepreneurship - professional and career development” (TS2).