The webinar “Innovative Inhabitation Models” explores emerging approaches to housing and living environments in response to contemporary social, environmental, and spatial challenges. Situated within the framework of RIXARCH 2026 – LIV-IN, the webinar shifts the focus from housing as a static product to inhabitation as a dynamic process shaped by design quality, governance, sustainability, and everyday life.

Bringing together experts from Latvia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, and the Netherlands, the webinar presents a series of case studies and conceptual reflections that span multiple scales — from micro-scale interventions in historic city centres to large residential developments and infrastructure-led urban transformation. Together, the contributions highlight how innovation in housing can emerge through reuse, densification, collective living models, environmental ambition, and integrated spatial strategies.

The programme opens with a reflection on housing density and lessons from historical model towns, addressing how past principles of urban design can inform contemporary innovation. Subsequent presentations explore block-oriented renovation strategies that link energy efficiency with the improvement of shared outdoor spaces, as well as collective residential care models that redefine the relationship between care, community, and spatial quality.