Report for the Academy about the sad history of bloody housing

Abstract

Working class housing was invented 150 years ago as a government instrument with final targets that had nothing to do with their users. But it is inhabiting (something happening as much inside as outside of houses in urban territory) the key concept since it is an important part of modern bio-politics. Starting XX century housing becomes a prior question for architects and other professionals knowledge: the answer to some necessities out down on some common citizen, hiding its origin and function as a bio disposal. Nowadays, although strategic centrality of urban fact is out of date due to the arrival of cyberworld, its functions widen due to the capture of every living becoming as an economical resource. This process knowledge drives to question radically our statute and professional practice, but equally opens new possibilities for a creative action.