Amanuel Alemu Desta
Architecture, Dilla University, Ethiopia
“Visualizing Housing Practices as Common Knowledge: Countering Data Neglect through Participatory Architectural Documentation of Kebele and Kuteba Houses in Dilla, Ethiopia”
Sarah Flinspach
Urban & Regional Planning, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
“Which city-level homelessness data are most relevant for creating a robust
ecosystem of housing policy and program initiatives at the municipal level? How can using city-level
homelessness data in the municipal planning process help to develop housing targets and homeless
response system programs in a complementary way, as part of an ecosystem approach to housing
policy?”
Lauren Harper
Data Management, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, USA
“Data During Disasters: Tenant Power and Knowledge Production in Los Angeles”
Dagnachew Amberbir Ketema
Urban Studies, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa
“The Epistemic Erasure of the Informal: Counter-Mapping Data Justice and
Redevelopment in Addis Ababa”
Joseph Kwasnik
Urban Studies, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany
“Asymmetric Legibility: An Ethnography of Data Practices in the Short-Term Rental Market”
Rohit Pradeep Lahoti
Program Management, World Resources Institute India (WRI India), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
“Data Justice through Multi-Dimensional Housing Literacy Platform: CIHAB (Centre for Inclusive Habitat): A Digital Platform for Addressing Information Asymmetry in Mumbai’s Slum Rehabilitation Scheme
(SRS) “
Bruno Lana
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile
“Housing and Urban Intelligence: Building a Regional Data Platform for Evidence-Based Housing Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean”
Aki Lee
Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
“Urban Ethnobotanist: Encounters with Place, Plants, and People Visualizing Housing, Measuring and Housing Practice as Common Knowledge”
Iago Martínez Durán
Housing Studies and Urban Governance, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain
“What governance cannot count: data politics and housing evidence
in contemporary Spain”
Samaneh Mohammadisharmeh
Land Management and Geospatial Science, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany
“Algorithmic Suitability or Spatial Exclusion? A Critical Geospatial Analysis of Data-Driven Social Housing Site Selection in Munich’s Zone 22 “
Roberto Ponce-Lopez
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Aditi Pradhan
Geography, Adelaide University, Australia
“Draw by Draw: Data-Driven Social Housing and the Reproduction of Communal Segregation in Ahmedabad”
Najem Eddine Romdhane
Environmental Design, Performing Arts, Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts of Gabes, Institute of Arts and Crafts, Gabès, Tunisia
“Draw by Draw: Data-Driven Social Housing and the Reproduction of Communal Segregation in Ahmedabad”
Participants of New Social Housing Programme for Doctoral Candidates in 2026: Aristotelis Antoniou (TU Wien), Tatjana Bergmeister (TU Wien), Beatriz Stambuk (TU Wien), Constanza Zeni (TU Wien), Christine Sattler (TU Wien), Antonio Faria (TU Wien), Kerstin Pluch (TU Wien), Delilah Wallbank (London School of Economics), Benedikt Straňák (London School of Economics), Guo Yichuan (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Couto Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo)