​Housing as a unit of material and architectural production is inseparably connected to the socio-political systems that engender it, but it is also shaped through personal interactions. Taking as the point of departure concrete housing objects, the seminar Housing: an Archive has been exploring the embeddedness of housing materiality in societal processes of sense- and meaning-making. The concept of the archive has been mobilized in order to uncover the multifaceted socio-cultural practices of home-making that these objects as material artifacts entail and enable. In doing so the seminar has been revealing connections between the personal and the political, between housing as a container and transmitter of personal memory and ordinary life and as an artifact of certain social imaginations and politics