Where there is no housing, there is no city. Houses and apartments are the basic fabric of human settlements—as are streets, squares, shops, offices, factories or underground pipelines. Every healthy and growing city requires sufficient housing for all existing as well as new residents. Ideally in densely populated and well-connected developments that save both the environment and public budgets.

This exhibition in Prague Tomorrow? series described the reasons why the Czech capital is still far from an ideal housing situation. At the same time, however, it also showed the paths that lead to a significant improvement in the supply of quality and affordable housing for current and future residents of Prague. As always, visitors to the exhibition could choose whether they want to absorb the information primarily through a large-screen projection, or whether they prefer a printed version in the form of a free catalogue. The audiovisual layer of the exhibition consisted of three parts. The first explained who builds apartments in the capital and how, while the second presented the diverse face of contemporary housing: its photographic essay “Houses, Apartments, People” invited visitors to peek into various types of Prague households—from homeless dormitories to luxury loft residences in the city center. The third part consisted of a sound montage composed of a wide range of opinions that resonate through the media on the topic of housing development. Visitors to the exhibition could sit comfortably on arguably the largest sofa in the city—paradoxically of the size of the smallest Prague apartment—while watching the projection. Thanks to the prahazitra.camp map viewer, everyone could easily find out how many apartments would be built in Prague in the following ten years (and where).

The data, information and forecasts contained in the exhibition were based primarily on the Housing Development Strategy for the Capital City of Prague, which had been prepared by IPR Prague and approved by the Prague City Council in 2021. The adaptation of the strategy by the capital is an important step towards overcoming the stagnation in housing, housing stock and construction.