Pascal Machado, Pr à l’UFPE (Brésil) et doctorant à PAVE, et Fanny Gerbeaud, chercheuse à PAVE, présenteront leurs travaux sur l’habitat lors de l’ENHR 2025 qui se tiendra à Champs-sur-Marne, près de Paris.
L’ENHR est le réseau européen des recherche sur l’habitat. Retrouvez ici le programme complet du colloque, ainsi que le résumé des communications de PAVE ci-dessous :
Pascal Machado : “Slum urbanization in the North East Of Brazil – Ecological and explorable lead?”
North-East of Brazil, is known as being one of the poorest regions in the country, which traduces also in pauper living ways. It is estimate, that almost half of the cities that compose this area, are informal. All have slums occupations, mostly in the peripheral areas.
Facing this urban problematic since the dictature period (1964-1984), where the government didn’t consider poverty, and combining with the biggest migration moment of Brazil, people where left to their own regarding habitation problematics.
Every time we speak about slums in Brazil, it sends us to Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, the two major cities. But how it is in the North-East? Do we have the same situations, the same context? What could characterize this problematic in this region, stigmatize by his poverty image?
After years since the beginnings of biggest slums apparition (60’s), and the different experience that were brought to try to “solve” this unfortunate way of live, is there any axis that could be adopted to start thinking in all these problematics in a unified way?
Based on three experiences on the region, where we are making a participant observation research, and towards the urbanization solution brought by intellectuals and government initiatives, in consultation with population, will try to get some answer about the effects of such proposition. Mostly consisting in an official recognition of this improvised popular answer to housing, and an attempt to give them access to all the public politics that they should have been entitled to.
Fanny Gerbeaud & Pascal Machado : “Designing for the Good Old Days to come: Boboyaka Cooperative Housing in Bordeaux (France)“
As people age, the once comforting home might become a burden or even a threat to living well and in good health. Many adapted housing options target specific issues – like security, services, care – but few put the elderly at the heart of their management.
Our communication focuses on the recently labelled Boboyaka senior cooperative housing in Bordeaux. Initiated by friends who wanted to “age happy together”, the twenty co-opted members want to master their future by creating their habitat. Combining senior and student flats, shared facilities and spaces, a shop, a kindergarten and a resource centre on ageing, the programme expresses the choice to remain an active part of society as a right and as a mean to defer disengagement.
The ambition is to embody both a spiritual and political legacy through its values (solidarity, accessibility, non-speculation), promoting an alternative housing model for and by the elderly. However, prioritizing the collective over the individual may prove to be a risky choice. It requires leaving a long-time home with its souvenirs, investing savings and juggling with the community to embrace ideals that may take you into the unknown… including a 50 sq. meter flat. Retirement could as well represent an opportunity to experiment a “last adventure”, once freed from social injunctions.
Through biographical narratives and interviews led as part of our ongoing qualitative research, We will analyze the cooperators’ aspirations, motivations and projections in the “home” they design for “good old days that are yet to come”.
