Milan has one of the most attractive university and tertiary education systems in Europe. It has become crucial to understand how Milan housing market responds to student inflow and how it stimulates demand.
StudMIHome investigates how students seek, find, dwell in, and leave their accomotadions, framing housing as a process that is constructed and negotiated on a daily basis. The project has the ambition to foster both public and scholarly debate around the topic of the student housing market, going beyond commonplace assumptions.
Our goal is to ‘tell the story’ of an increasingly important portion of the urban rental market by showing how students’ housing trajectories interconnect with their life experiences, aspirations and future prospects.
After all, the chance to have decent and safe housing is a central need of human life, a fundamental right, and one of the pillars of belonging and feeling part of a community.
StudMIHome action-research project
was born to help them navigate
the housing market.
Do you need help? Check our Housing Orientation Desk.
The project StudMiHome stems from Professor Giuliana Costa‘s years of observation and dialogue with students about their housing conditions. In her everyday interactions with students at Politecnico di Milano, she collected many stories about the difficulties they faced in the housing market and how they coped with them. Many students incur in excessive expenses, fall victim to scams or malpractices, and waste time and money looking for accommodation. This is why the project focuses on housing orientation and launched a pilot HODesk at Off Campus NoLo with the help of Federconsumatori Milano.
The project is funded by the Polisocial Award 2023. StudMiHome officially started its activities in December 2023 with the collaboration of three Politecnico Departments: DAStU, Design, and DABC.
It’s a one-year project, but it strives for the long-term territorial activation of relevant actors and for a broader dissemination of its results to enable a continuous reflective effort on the housing issue.
Ask for fist-level legal assistance through our pilot Housing Orientation Desk.
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Get Involved
We believe that students should be active participants in the creation of this project. Send us an email!
We are looking for students who want to be interviewed about their housing story. You can write it anonymously here or plan a semi-structured interview with us. In both cases your identity will remain anonymous.
We welcome students who want to participate in co-design activities to help us design and develop the orientation service.
We welcome anyone who wants to propose topics and events for in-depth discussion, debate, and reflection on the topic of housing.
Tell us if you know any association that could fit the scope of the project and become part of our network.
If you want provide any relevant information or report that something important is missing, please contact us.
FuoriMercato - Talk
Open debate titled ‘Il Salone del Mobile in una città senza casa’.
18 April 2024
OffCampus NoLo, Viale Monza 54
With Carmelo Benenti, Chiediamo Casa, LatoB, Yousef Abuzeid, Nedžla Sferović
Media
→ DAStU
→ PoliMi
→ Eventbride
Case Milanesissime - Exposition and Talk
Exposition ‘Students Living in Case Milanesissime’ by Alvar Aaltissimo
27 April – 2 May 2024
spazioSERRA, Stazione Lancetti
Curated with Alvar Aaltissimo and VuotoCollettivo
Talk with Yousef Abuzeid, Manahil Huda, Pavithra Swaminathan
other media
→ Coeval Magazine
→ Dipartimento di Design
→ VuotoCollettivo