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The Accommodating Change initiative grew out of Circle 33 Housing Group's desire to promote interest in and thereby, improve the quality of affordable housing. In collaboration with the AF, two competitions were held, for architects from the UK and abroad to submit designs for affordable housing, and a related student competition. The second competition encouraged students from all over Europe to actively engage with the current debate on the future of housing.
Peter Barber Architects, the winner of the professional competition, is currently working with Circle 33 on the development of his winning scheme, which is scheduled to go on site in Spring 2003. For the student competition a total of 86 submissions were received from 19 schools of architecture in the UK and abroad. Five schemes were chosen from a final shortlist of ten. The overall winner was Ema Bonifacic from the Architectural Association with Kevin Chong (University of North London), Giles Lovegrove (Westminster University) Hannah Feigl and Vincent Morales-Garoffolo (South Bank University) and Misuzu Ochi (Edinburgh School of Architecture) receiving runner-up prizes.

The exhibition, publication and website were launched on 21st February 2002. Curated by Hilary French and designed by Kerr|Noble with Fred Scott, the exhibition presented winning and shortlisted schemes from the professional competition, represented with models and video visualisations. The exhibition is now closed but the entries of the professional and student finalists work can be viewed on the website www.accommodatingchange.org

The Accommodating Change publication provides a detailed account of the competitions including information from the briefs, record of all the architects and students taking part, extracts from seminars run in conjunction with the student competition and essay contributions from architects and academics. Designed to complement the exhibition, it also functions in its own right as a topical book about design innovation in social housing within the UK context.

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