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The wonder of home? Which places have it and what can architecture contribute?

Saturday 30 June 2012, 12.45PM

Speaker(s): A panel of experts

A panel of experts will debate the question: The wonder of home? Which places have it and what can architecture contribute?.

Professor Becky Tunstall, University of York Centre for Housing Policy
Becky Tunstall is Director of the Centre for Housing Policy and Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy.

John Hocking, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
John Hocking is Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.

Rowan Moore (Chair)
Rowan Moore is an architecture critic. He has been editor of the architecture journal Blueprint, and has written for the Evening Standard and The Guardian.

Professor Mark Roodhouse, Department of History, University of York
Mark Roodhouse is Mark Roodhouse is a lecturer in modern British history. His research and teaching interests include the histories of economic life, crime and criminal justice, everyday ethics, and history and social theory.

Admission: By free ticket only, (jointly with the Why we build talk), available from yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets

Location: Ron Cooke Hub Auditorium, Heslington East, University of York