Roundtables
Access to Housing as a Key Factor for Well-Being
What happens to our mental health when we do not have a safe place to live? Access to decent housing is essential for well-being and mental health; housing insecurity, the fear of losing one’s home, or the inability to access adequate housing generate stress, anxiety, and social exclusion. This round table opens a conversation on the relationship between housing and health and explores alternatives that place life and collective care at the centre. A reflection on housing as a fundamental right and a basic condition for living with dignity.
This round table is part of the ACCIÓ>CINEMA programme.
Acció>Cinema is a project led by Catalunya Film Festivals, with the collaboration of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation of the Department of the European Union and Foreign Action, and in partnership with Lafede. The project promotes audiovisual media as a tool for building an informed, critical, and engaged citizenry committed to a more just world. We connect the world of cooperation with cinema, audiences and reality, critical analysis and action. Because in a global world, solutions are global.
Acció>Cinema is a collaboration facilitated by the Department of Culture.
Speakers
Blanca Valdivia
Partner at Col·lectiu Punt 6.
She holds a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation from the Barcelona School of Architecture, with the dissertation “Caring City: Urban Quality of Life from a Feminist Perspective.” She was recently a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and led the project “Spaces, Time and Care: Long-term Care in Ageing.”
She is a co-founder of the Col·lectiu Punt 6 cooperative, a leading organization in the field of feminist urbanism, where she has recently returned as a worker-member.
Noemí del Prado Sánchez
Clinical Lead, Juvenile Justice Therapeutic Unit “Els Til·lers”.
Clinical psychologist at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, with more than 15 years of experience working with adolescents who have mental health problems and are in situations of high social and economic vulnerability. In recent years, she has worked in the context of Juvenile Justice, which has allowed her to observe and understand the barriers faced by young people in situations of social exclusion, particularly when these challenges are exacerbated by the lack of access to decent housing and by housing insecurity.
Salah Jamal
Physician and historian, member of the Board of the Palestinian Community in Catalonia
Salah Jamal is a dermatologist, historian, and writer, Palestinian by birth and Barcelonan by adoption. He settled in Barcelona after 1967 and has lived there for decades. He holds a PhD in Medicine and degrees in History and Geography, and has taught at UVic and in the Master’s in Arab and Islamic World at the University of Barcelona. Author of works such as Aroma àrab, he has received several literary awards.
Moderation
David Fernàndez
Journalist and social activist.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Directa, the editorial board of L’Avenç, and the Board of Òmnium Cultural, from where he participates in Projecte Lliures (free from poverty, exclusion, and inequality). He recently wrote No robarás (Fragmenta, 2024), a critique of the fierce drift of twilight capitalism. He collaborates with various media outlets such as Ara, RAC1, TV3, and Línia Xarxa.
Session Time
Information
- Activity in Catalan
- Session with LSC interpreter and live captioning
Important
This round table is part of the ACCIÓ>CINEMA programme