Parallel Session 2: Child poverty: Urban segregation and marginalisation
Facilitator: Sven De Visscher, lecturer in social work at University College Ghent in Belgium
- Children’s housing invisibility and its impacts in market liberal urban transition contexts: lessons from Australia – Wendy Stone
- The street workshops of Ricardo Dalisi with out-of-school children in Naples – Adélaïde Boëlle
Parallel Session 2 speakers bio’s and abstracts:
Wendy Stone, Associate Professor in Housing and Social Policy at the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia
Despite 30 years of sustained economic growth increasing numbers of citizens in the highly privatised home ownership society of Australia live in poverty. This paper seeks to illuminate and account for the increasing proportion of these who are children by relating this phenomenon to wider processes of urbanism and welfare state transition. The paper draws…
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Adélaïde Boëlle, founder Architecture In Vivo
Riccardo Dalisi, the Italian architect and designer, invested his time in the early 70s in street workshops in the segregated neighbourhood of Traiano in Naples. For 4 years, he provided poor children out of the education system with representation tools to transform public spaces. The young Neapolitans expressed and emancipated themselves artistically with mock-ups, constructions…
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