Homeowners as Idle Dwellers: Revisiting Engels and Proudhon's Debate on Housing, Property, and Freedom Unavailable

Erika Brandl is a German-Canadian doctoral candidate at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bergen, Norway; her thesis research focuses on intergenerational relations, housing adequacy and policy, and property rights. She has held Visiting Appointments at Sorbonne Université, at King’s College London, and at the University of Oxford. In addition to her academic work, Erika works as an architect at the small Bergen-based office 3RW arkitekter, where she develops city plans, community dwellings, and medium-scale cultural institution projects. She also teaches the second-year master studio course at Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, the Bergen School of Architecture.