Homelessness: Reframed (Saatchi Gallery)
The arts - whether images, words, voices - can reveal much about the lived experience of homelessness and its devastating effects across the life course. The Saachi Gallery recently hosted this moving exhibition and the [...]
Housing in the Hendon area
This blog was first published on the MODA website in 2022. Hendon has a fascinating range of housing types which reveal much about social, design and architectural history in just a few streets. Far from [...]
Roles and Responsibilities in Housing and Health histories: Inspectors and Area Development and Redevelopment
As 2023 draws to a close and with so much bad news around housing, I am trying to finish on a positive note. In this post I have drawn together several pieces I have written [...]
Living in offices: photography and town planning
It’s easy to use the term ‘housing crisis’ glibly. It’s less easy to understand what is feels like for those who most acutely suffer some of its consequences. One of these consequences has been the [...]
Damp and mould
Following the tragic and preventable death of a Awaab Ishak, there has understandably been much interest in damp and mould in the home environment and what can be done about it. In November 2022 HM [...]
How can we better communicate the importance of housing history through the arts?
I am really pleased to host Josh Knowles' post this month including the lovely artwork he created during a recent creative histories session (details below). I think the arts define the history of housing and [...]