What does it mean to live in the city without a place you can call your own? If living alone is our new reality, what does it look like? How to design for the elderly, and for those who care for them?

These are some of the questions emerging from the three-part short documentary film series and investigation, conceived by CCA Director Giovanna Borasi, directed by Daniel Schwartz, to examine the ways in which changing societies, new economic pressures, and increasing population density are affecting the homes of various communities. Through the lens of architectural projects, each episode looks at the global scope as well as the local specificities of challenges to urban society and its spatial configuration, informed by changes in lifestyles and demographics.

While the first film  What It Takes to Make a Home (CCA, 2019, 29 min) addressed homelessness, the second film When We Live Alone (CCA, 2020, 27 min) examines the ways in which people live alone. Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing aging population is reshaping architectural and social constructs, and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges.

The trilogy will screen on 27 September in Lisbon as part of the festival A Revolution Like This - Struggle and Fiction: The Housing Question, followed by a conversation with Hannah Strothmann (who collaborated as curatorial researcher on the trilogy), participants of the festival, and moderated by Julia Albani.

Friday, 27 September 2024
8pm What It Takes to Make a Home (2019, 29 min, VO English, German, with English subtitles)
8.30pm When We Live Alone (2020, 27 min, VO Japanese with English subtitles)
9pm Where We Grow Older (2023, 30 min, VO English, Catalan, Spanish, with English subtitles)
9.30pm Conversation

This event is free and open to the public.

Jardins do Bombarda
Rua Gomes Freire, 161
1150-085 Lisbon
Portugal

See further information on the festival’s website.