Culture-Led Housing
Yuile, Laura (2023) Culture-Led Housing. Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE), Online.
'Culture-Led Housing' is a 4-part podcast mini-series as part of the wider podcast series and ongoing research project 'ASSET ARREST'. Developed in collaboration with the London Cultural Diversity Lab (part of the Creative Impact Research Centre Europe [CIRCE]) at City, University of London, these episodes explore the idea of what I call ‘culture-led housing’ and whether such housing projects can offer radical alternatives to financialised housing models.
If property developers can profit from working with artists, can artists transform this relationship to provide radical
housing alternatives within a culture of crisis? Both art and housing operate through a logic of speculation. This means they rely on the assumption or promise of future profits. This podcast series examines the points at which the two meet: property developers use artists to produce cultural value that can be leveraged for profits,
whilst artists may benefit from this process by way of commissions and affordable living/working space. Through a series of conversations, I examine what I call culture-led housing and the social, economic, political, and cultural processes that have enabled such developments. I will interrogate the modes through which culture-led housing developments are operating and whether
they can resist playing into processes of gentrification to offer an alternative to financialised housing.
My definition of culture-led housing includes housing projects that have either been initiated by artists or cultural workers
or have included them as a key factor or party in their development. Artists may be included as utopian designers or signifiers of certain characteristics that contribute towards placemaking and thus the marketing of an area or development. Culture-led housing can be designed with the purpose of providing houses for artists or can be designed with artists for the purpose of housing a wider community. In some cases, there is an attempt to forge a relationship
between the resident artists and the wider local community.
Throughout this 4-part podcast series I speak to creative practitioners across the UK about their experiences of living within different forms of culture-led housing.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3955-5040
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