Organized in collaboration with the South London Gallery, the Living School took place between February – June 2016, with each session occurring at a different venue in the city.
Housing brings together the intimate experiences of home-life with the operations of city or state policies. In doing so, housing is an extremely sensitive and essential issue, creating a complex intersection between the spatial imagination, emotional life, well-being and experiences of community that rests unevenly within the neoliberal politics of privatization. The sphere of the domestic, as that informative foundation central to personal growth, as well as neighborly relation, bears the weight of an economic argument.
The Living School is a mobile event series organized by Brandon LaBelle and the South London Gallery focusing on the issues of housing, common property, and precarity. Given the tremendous unsettling of secure housing in the city of London and elsewhere, questions as to the right to public housing are pressing. Such questions equally force additional questions as to the politics of access, the nature of community life, property as public good, as well as the power of the weak and strategies of resistance and renewal. The Living School is an open gathering for sharing and developing dialogue, a