This weekend I’ll be moderating a panel on cohousing and cooperative housing at Mextropoli festival in Mexico City; a convo we deem vital in turning housing into an engine for collective life

More info here: mextropoli.mx/programa/

For a while, Phillip Lühl and I have been operating as @quiote.bsky.social when doing projects, research and consulting, but it took a while to introduce ourselves on social media. Here we are: bsky.app/profile/quio...

Working from Mexico on a report on urban land financing in Namibia, my ChatGPT query threw a result referencing work we did at the Institute of Land, Livelihoods and Housing during the eight years I was there; a report on urban land delivery: illh.nust.na/sites/defaul...

We’re promoting a #cohousing project in Mexico City. Part life project, but also a continuation of a longstanding interest in housing. Yesterday, we held a small workshop in between the monthly gatherings we do to take us there 🚀

Today, social movements in Mexico City approved unanimously a citizen initiative of a Law for Housing Coops; another round of work starts now to get it passed, but this milestone is momentous

The first mission took place during the last two weeks. It focused on gathering insights on two key components of the new National Housing Policy approved by Cabinet last year; in which me and several dear colleagues were significantly involved.

Mexico is arguably having a cooperativist momentum, including a (re-)emergence of housing coops. Last week, we spoke to Raul Valles about the Technical Assistance Institutes (IATs) in Uruguay, remarkable examples of state-supported yet independent multi-disciplinary technical support

Amazing to see the analytical and projective work of architecture students at @syracuseu.bsky.social on retrofitting Taobao Villages and “infrastructure villagism” in China. Thank you to my dear Joing Wu for the invitation to review and to Quanle Huang for the thoughtful comments

Tomorrow is the launch of the fourth issue of the Namibia Journal of Social Justice on Climate Justice and Resource Extractivism. I'm part of the editorial collective; and happy it features an article by a master student from KTH in Sweden I had the pleasure to co-supervise

A Forum for Analysis and Discussion of the Strategic Lines of Housing Policy and the Operating Rules of Mexico City's Housing Institute took place and I had the opportunity to present on the potential that housing cooperatives would have to mitigate the housing crisis and rebuild social fabric