Day 1: 6th April 2018 (friday)
14:00-14:30
Welcome coffee
14:30-15:00
introduction by the BMBF-research association Hausfragen (Elisabeth Timm with project partners Sabine Flamme, Christiane Cantauw, Uwe Meiners)
15:00-16:30
Panel A: Built and inhabited: living in a single-family house
How do people organize their everyday in a single-family home today? Is there any resonance between couples with small children who recently moved into a newly developed suburban area, and old couples or mostly an old woman who spend/s their/her retirement in a large house in the older, neighboring single- family-home-area? What are the specificities of the single-family home as an ideal of continuity and security across generations in Germany? How do people deal with the suburban single-family home as an intimate good of consumption, as an investment and/or as an inheritance vis-à-vis changing welfare regimes and in confrontation with declining current value of their estates especially in rural areas?
Rural, suburban, urban: detecting variants of the single-family home in Germany Wagenknecht, Katherin (Münster/GER)
Family life in building stock: second hand houses in German suburbs
Mlejnek, Marius (Münster/GER)
Two homes: revisiting a French type of dwelling
Chevalier, Sophie (Amiens/FR)
16:30-17:00
coffee break
17:00-18:30
Panel B: Home treasures: mining the single-family house
How is the postwar stock of single-family homes that has been built from the 1950s to the 1980s used and adapted in the context of demographic change and in confrontation with the declining current value of these estates especially in rural areas, be it in individual solutions or in new municipal planning? What are the economic and ecological potentials and challenges of the materials that make up this stock? What are the cultural and material values of the household and entertainment appliances that became famous as white goods or brown goods in consumption and economic history?
Single-family houses as urban mines
Flamme, Sabine (Münster/GER) with
Walter, Gotthard (Münster/GER)
Bulky waste – quantity, quality and factors of influence
Santjer, Manfred (Ahlen/GER)
ReHABITAT_Converting detached houses into multiperson homes and the surprising effects on the discussion of values
Lindenthal, Julia (Vienna/AUT)
18:30-19:30
dinner
20:00-21:00
keynote/public evening lecture
Single-family homes in German suburbia - new aspects, stable qualities and increasing challenges regarding everyday life
Tintemann, Inken (Aachen/GER)
21:00
come together
Day 2: 7th April 2018 (saturday)
9:00-10:30
Panel C: Funded and administered: politics of the single-family house
How do couples who wish to build a new family house in suburbia, municipal administration, land market and local politics interact? Can we detect relations to the federal level of German housing legislation that promoted living in a suburban single-family home and supported this with public funds around the male-breadwinnner-family, the house and the related car-use since the 1950s? How do latest programs from EU-, national or regional authorities that aim to transform European suburbia into competing and growing regions, and the implementation of the principles of new public management interfere with this?
Gifting for homeownership: intergenerational support and first time home-buying in three contrasting welfare contexts
Druta, Oana (Amsterdam/NLD)
Land management in rural suburbia: planning tools and municipal realities
Köhler, Tine (Dortmund, GER)
Renting is wasting: on the popular economy of homeownership in Germany
Smigla-Zywocki, Jakob (Münster/GER)
10:30-10:45
coffee break
10:45-11:15
(continuation Panel C)
Single-family homes versus multi-family homes in metropolitan regions: a politico-economic analysis
Heeg, Susanne (Frankfurt a. M./GER)
11:15-13:15
bus ride to Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
13:15-14:30
welcome and lunch at restaurant DORFKRUG Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
14:30-16:30
guided tour in the exhibition "4Wände"
curator Wilgeroth, Cai-Olaf
16:30-17:00
coffee break
17:00-18:00
keynote/public evening lecture at Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
The predicament of the vernacular: semantic, cultural and environmental challenges to an academic concept
Vellinga, Marcel (Oxford, GB)
18:30-20:00
dinner at restaurant DORFKRUG Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
20:00-22:00
bus ride to Münster
Day 3: 8th April 2018 (sunday)
9:00-11:00
Panel D: Detached desires: popular visions and everyday memories of the single-family house
The rise of the single-family home throughout the 20th century has been triggered by new and changing media technologies (printing, photography, film). Vice versa, house or home and family have been central issues to make domestic picture production a mass business. Where and how were these sujets produced? How did such pictures circulate between public housing policy, the real estate and mortgage market, prefab manufacturers, family albums and super8-films, and guide books or TV-series (style guides, do-it-yourself-advice, home improvement)?
Dream house factories: What happened to the dream of the factory made house?
Gill, Julia (Berlin/GER)
California dreaming in West-German suburbia. Modernist bungalow architecture and its middle-class aspirations
Ebert, Carola (Berlin/GER)
Housing the Internet: spatial arrangements, everyday life practices and the mobilization of media
Peil, Corinna (Salzburg/AUT) with
Röser, Jutta (Münster/GER)
11:00-11:15
coffee break
11:15-12:45
Panel E: Knowing and showing: documenting and exhibiting houses and homes
Beginning with the conservation in situ and/or the transfer of rural farm buildings into the World’s Fairs and other exhibitions at the middle of the 19th century, houses became the defining exhibit of a specific museum type: the open-air museum, probably the most popular institution within the European “rise of heritage” (A. Swenson). How did documentary and emblematic uses of vernacular houses as exhibits develop until today? What are the relations and trajectories between houses and homes inside and outside museums, between the suburban single-family dwellings and the open-air museum as a booming destination for family weekend trips? How does this contribute to merge and to promote detached homeownership and family life as a generic type of living, especially vis-à-vis (prefab) social housing, whose visual genealogy settles much more near the barracks than in cozy homes?
The Sunshine Boulevard in Germany - families, houses and cars in advertising
Caplan, Anne (Münster/GER)
Living and exhibiting: living is always a given-to-be-seen
Nierhaus, Irene (Bremen/GER)
Material/Heritage. The single-family home and the resource paradigm in historic preservation
Warda, Johannes (Weimar/GER)
12:45-13:00
coffee break
13:00-14:30
Public round table
Bernhard, Jörg, Freelancing Consultant, former Head of Human Resources, Stadtreinigung Hamburg and CEO Stilbruch GmbH, Hamburg (GER)
Druta, Oana, HOUWEL-project, University of Amsterdam (NDL)
Heinichen, Jutta, urban planning, municipality of Haltern am See (GER)
Hollstein, Andreas, Mayor of Altena (GER)
Nagel, Reiner, Federal Foundation of Baukultur, Potsdam (GER)
Lindenthal, Julia, Österreichisches Ökologie-Institut (AUT)
14:30 ff.
lunch (to go)