A Sense of Place: Repairing, Maintaining and Reimagining Social Housing on Film

Caterina Sartori

Caterina Sartori

Caterina Sartori is a PhD candidate in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths (University of London). Her work explores the ways in which homeowners on a London housing estate refuse the demolition of their homes. Caterina is also Film Officer and Film Festival Director at the Royal Anthropological Institute.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 6December 14, 2021<December 14, 2021

A Sense of Place: Repairing, Maintaining and Reimagining Social Housing on Film

Caterina Sartori

Challenging views of social housing as dysfunctional and dystopian, Caterina Sartori examines films that reimagine everyday social space through practices of care, repair and maintenance.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 6November 17, 2021<November 17, 2021

The Precarious Confines of Homeownership and Rights

Caterina Sartori

Caterina Sartori discusses how homeowners on the Aylesbury Estate in South East London have struggled to reclaim their property rights and the right to shape the public image of their home.