On Home as a domestic space and as the articulation of fundamental fantasies of space, memory and identity. The conference examines how the category Home works as a point of political reference and mobilization, and considers the dangers of overinvestment in this category, both at the level of the city and in terms of fuelling political conflict.Nick Bullock on rebuilding post-war Britain. From reconstructing bomb-damaged infrastructure and improving poor living conditions to confronting the impact of sustained parental absence and evacuation upon the idea of home, Bullock examines the promises and problems of the social housing programme in the wake of the severe disruptions to domesticity following the Second World War.