Mimesis, 2025
A cura di Maddalena Floriana Grassi, Valentina Novak, Francesca Serrazanetti, Constanze Wolfgring
Unconventional Affordable Housing! Projects, Practices, Policies brings together insights from 26 authors on whether and how unconventional housing solutions can contribute to rendering housing more affordable in European cities, where rising prices have increasingly challenged access to decent living conditions. It is part of the UAH! Unconventional Affordable Housing research framework, which explores how socio-demographic and economic shifts in Europe have disrupted the modernist ideal of a fixed equivalence between “family” and “housing typology”, revealing a mismatch between housing supply and increasingly diverse household needs. The book examines the potential for innovation to emerge not only from top-down interventions, but also from engaging with the perspectives of those excluded from decision-making, inviting practitioners, policymakers, and scholars to bring the voices and experiences of residents into the conversation.