100 years Housing Crisis!

The excursion 100 years of the Housing Crisis!’ explores Rotterdam’s residential history in an original way and looks ahead towards the future.

According to politicians, the Netherlands currently has to build about 1 million extra homes. How did we, as a nation, get to this point? And how are we going to approach this? And is this all still about how we want to live and for whom?

In the past, the Netherlands has faced a similar task, several times even. With the introduction of public housing at the beginning of the 20th century, after the Second World War and during the famous urban renewal in the 1970s and 1980s. What can we today, learn from the approach and vision of the enthusiastic urban planners, committed architects and, above all, from the involved residents from the past?

The excursion starts at the museum house in the Kiefhoek: the main example of good living for the working class in the 1920s. The tour continues through the South using statements, images and stories about other major moments in housing history to create a shared vision of the future of living in the city.

‘100 Years of Housing Crisis!’ was created in close collaboration with Studio Ruimte; more information about Studio Ruimte see Studio Ruimte