The Lives of Others film series is run in conjunction with the undergraduate course ARC354: History of Housing: Crisis, Visions, Commonplace taught by Petros Babasikas. These screenings are open to all Daniels Faculty students and their guests. Registration is not required.
 
The series reflects on issues discussed in class: Housing as Urbanism, the Industrial Revolution, Tenements and Apartments, Utopias and Communes, the Garden City, Post-War Reconstruction, Public Housing, Informal Settlements, the Ruins of Modernism, Crises, New Taylorism, etc.
 
Students are exposed to seminal international cinematic works from the 1960s, 90s and 00s’; different structures, tropes, characters, stories or visions; close-ups or panoramas of the spaces, challenges and dreams of common and everyday domestic life in global cities. Open discussions will follow each screening.