RE-DWELL. Workshop 2 (Budapest)

Three international workshops have been planned to take place in Lisbon (2021), Budapest
(2022), and Zagreb (2023) as part of the RE-DWELL project. The second of these workshops,
organized by the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS) has been carried out during the second year
of the project activities in Budapest, from March 28 to 30, 2022.

The theme of the Budapest workshop, "Community Involvement in Affordable and Sustainable
Housing," was approached from a sociological perspective, focusing on socio-spatial
inequalities, financialization and housing, and green homes and communities. The workshop
programme fulfilled various objectives: to follow up on the development of the ESRs’ research
by fostering networking between the individual research projects, to conduct training activities
related to two structured courses (RMT2 and TS2), to continue with the collaborative research
work (vocabulary and case studies library) and to engage local stakeholders in the networking
actions (non-academic sectors, local administrations and civic organizations concerned with
sustainable and affordable housing).

The first session of the RMT2 course “RMT2 Course: Comparative methodologies based on
quantitative and qualitative data analysis” took place on the first day of the workshop. A handson
session enabled students to discuss the various perspectives on housing comparative
research in groups. Likewise, the first session of the TS2 Course “Entrepreneurship; professional
and career development” took place on the last day. It addressed the concepts of and
approaches to entrepreneurship, highlighting entrepreneurial opportunities, ventures, and types
of activity and indicators. Finally, the ongoing work on the vocabulary and case study library was
presented and reviewed.

An open roundtable was held on the topic of "Community Engagement", with the online
participation of Prof. Jenny Pickerill and Prof. Richard Lang, and moderated on-site by Prof.
Gerard van Bortel.

Local NGOs and secondment representatives were involved in the organization and
implementation of some workshop activities,