You are here: Homepage Tag living Articles View of the house of the artist’s family Photo: Maryam Mumladze for Kulturaustausch Flying visit | Georgia A house in Georgia In the Georgian capital Tbilisi, there’s a house on a leafy street corner that is like a museum. A visit By Maryam Mumladze 11/30/2023 Linda Greta Zsiga and her family were forcibly relocated to Pata Rât. Many people live there in makeshift shelters without water and electricity Photo: Daniel Mihailescu/Getty Images Human rights | Romania Roma pushed to the dirty outskirts of the city Years ago, the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca resettled hundreds of Roma - next to a huge garbage dump. Some families fought back and managed to attract international attention By Gundula Haage 11/02/2023 The Limon family house in Munshiganj Photo: K M Asad for KULTURAUSTAUSCH How we live now | Bangladesh A flood-proof home How can our homes deal with climate change? This house in the Munshiganj region can simply be moved when the floods come. By KM Asad 06/01/2023 In the middle of greenery and with a view over the bay Photo: Jess Smee How we live now | Mallorca A home with a view The scientist Maria Teresa Escalas lives in Mallorca, overlooking a rocky bay called Cala Santanyí. It is a modernist structure with sharp angles and clear lines but it also blends into the colour scheme of the local coastline. By Jess Smee 01/09/2023 Mrs Wu's house Photos: Jimmy Beunardeau How we live now | Taiwan A house in Taichung Taiwan’s history unites many cultural influences: These are reflected in Mrs Wu’s house. By Jimmy Beunardeau 04/14/2022 Carla Tomás Cabral's house is located in Bissau's Cuntum Madina neighborhood Photo: Kristin Bethge How we live now | Guinea-Bissau A house in Guinea-Bissau Doors wide open in the Cuntum Madina neighbourhood By Kristin Bethge 01/07/2022 Chefs Zhao Ansheng and her husband Niu Song during lunch break in their basement room near the northern Third Ring Road in Beijing. Photo: Sim Chi Yin Life underground | China “I asked, Where do you live?” In Beijing, some people on low incomes dwell in basements beneath the city. Photographer Sim Chi Yin depicted them in her photo series “The Rat Tribe”. A conversation Interview with Sim Chi Yin 01/07/2022 Day trip | Philippines A house on the move Very convenient: when someone moves house, everyone helps. About a special parade in the Philippines By Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta 10/01/2021 The Sámi build their traditional huts, the goahtis, from material found on site Photo: imago / alimdi Make it yourself! A hut made out of wood The Sámi from Scandinavia know how to build a house. For 4,000 years they have been building goahtis to withstand the harsh climate By Joar Nango 10/01/2021
View of the house of the artist’s family Photo: Maryam Mumladze for Kulturaustausch Flying visit | Georgia A house in Georgia In the Georgian capital Tbilisi, there’s a house on a leafy street corner that is like a museum. A visit By Maryam Mumladze 11/30/2023
Linda Greta Zsiga and her family were forcibly relocated to Pata Rât. Many people live there in makeshift shelters without water and electricity Photo: Daniel Mihailescu/Getty Images Human rights | Romania Roma pushed to the dirty outskirts of the city Years ago, the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca resettled hundreds of Roma - next to a huge garbage dump. Some families fought back and managed to attract international attention By Gundula Haage 11/02/2023
The Limon family house in Munshiganj Photo: K M Asad for KULTURAUSTAUSCH How we live now | Bangladesh A flood-proof home How can our homes deal with climate change? This house in the Munshiganj region can simply be moved when the floods come. By KM Asad 06/01/2023
In the middle of greenery and with a view over the bay Photo: Jess Smee How we live now | Mallorca A home with a view The scientist Maria Teresa Escalas lives in Mallorca, overlooking a rocky bay called Cala Santanyí. It is a modernist structure with sharp angles and clear lines but it also blends into the colour scheme of the local coastline. By Jess Smee 01/09/2023
Mrs Wu's house Photos: Jimmy Beunardeau How we live now | Taiwan A house in Taichung Taiwan’s history unites many cultural influences: These are reflected in Mrs Wu’s house. By Jimmy Beunardeau 04/14/2022
Carla Tomás Cabral's house is located in Bissau's Cuntum Madina neighborhood Photo: Kristin Bethge How we live now | Guinea-Bissau A house in Guinea-Bissau Doors wide open in the Cuntum Madina neighbourhood By Kristin Bethge 01/07/2022
Chefs Zhao Ansheng and her husband Niu Song during lunch break in their basement room near the northern Third Ring Road in Beijing. Photo: Sim Chi Yin Life underground | China “I asked, Where do you live?” In Beijing, some people on low incomes dwell in basements beneath the city. Photographer Sim Chi Yin depicted them in her photo series “The Rat Tribe”. A conversation Interview with Sim Chi Yin 01/07/2022
Day trip | Philippines A house on the move Very convenient: when someone moves house, everyone helps. About a special parade in the Philippines By Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta 10/01/2021
The Sámi build their traditional huts, the goahtis, from material found on site Photo: imago / alimdi Make it yourself! A hut made out of wood The Sámi from Scandinavia know how to build a house. For 4,000 years they have been building goahtis to withstand the harsh climate By Joar Nango 10/01/2021
