Eco-Village and Cohousing Association of New Zealand. Home Page Editorial Winter 2004 Where Ecovillage Fits on the Sustainability Terrain Map Looking around it is easy to see that we live in an unsettled time, and that this unsettledness is born of imminent change.
There is a movie called Koyaanisqatsi, the word is Hopi Indian, and apparently means: 1. crazy life; 2. life in turmoil; 3. life out of balance; 4. life disintegrating; 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. That sounds like a pretty fair way of describing the global instability of recent current events to me. Simultaneously there are a great many positive things happening as we struggle to break through into an essentially saner paradigm.
That paradigm is variously referred to as the Gaia, planetary, egalitarian, solar, or post-modern, but essentially survivable, paradigm. My purpose here is not to dwell on the world's ills: it's too depressing. Cohousing and ecovillages. Cohousing and eco-villages are two innovative forms of settlement which have evolved since the 1960s.
They have different definitions and histories. Most cohousing groups are in urban settings, and most eco-villages in rural locations. Environmental sustainability is of prime importance for eco-villages, but this is only true for some cohousing groups. However, there is now some interest, and a number of examples, of projects which are both eco-villages and cohousing communities. This section offers a brief definition of the two concepts. Living together in a cohousing community. Cohousing. Cohousing is a housing development movement that started in the late 1960s in Denmark, where it is called Bofaellesskaber or 'living communities'.
With increasing numbers of women going to work there was a desire to reduce the burden of housework, and in particular childcare and evening meals, through shared communal services. Cohousing is also seen to improve social relations and develop a sense of community. What started as a middle-class housing solution popular with young families, is now a well established housing model for all social groups, and has spread to a number of Northern European countries where governmental policy and funding has encouraged development.
It is also becoming increasingly popular in the US, Canada and New Zealand, where cohousing has a more explicit environmental agenda, sharing many similarities with ecovillages but usually in a less radical, smaller and more urban version. References About. Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood : Buildings. Cohousing is a form of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighbourhoods.
The cohousing concept originated in Denmark in the early 1970s, and was introduced to the English-speaking world in the late 1980s by the inspirational book "Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves" by architects Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett. Since its inception this concept of "living community" has spread quickly. There are now hundreds of cohousing communities around the world, from Europe to North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. What is Cohousing? Cohousing and community on the coast.
Where my mother grew up, the 42 children would play together outside for hours, and all the neighbours would look out for them.
Yes to Homes - it's time to unravel the housing crisis. Diez historias sobre vivienda colectiva. La historia de arquitectura residencial arroja una interminable ristra de proyectos más que válidos olvidados, que bien podrían haber servido como referentes para las viviendas construidas estos últimos años tantos ensanches peninsulares, bien para reproducirlos o para aprender de sus errores.
En ese perímetro en el que se sitúan los diez proyectos que analiza con detenimiento la obra "10 historias sobre vivienda colectiva" (a+t architecture, mayo 2013), que reconoce la obra de diez figuras "que defendieron su visión personal de la arquitectura lejos de los dogmatismos y cerca de los usuarios". [Álbum] Es el caso del anguloso Complejo Jeanne Hachette, ideado y construido entre 1970 y 1974 en el barrio de Ivry-sur-Seine de Paris por Jean Renaudie, que introducía la diversidad de funciones en los edificios, e integraba viviendas, tiendas, oficinas y espacios verdes en altura. Estandarización: Moscú y París Dos casos italianos Londres, años 50 El Tokio más racional de Shibuya. Resilience.org. Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World. Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World. Documents in Cohousing. Type to search for People, Research Interests and Universities Searching...
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How Does Cohousing Create Sustainability? Graham Meltzer, Ph.D., Cohousing Scholar This piece answers the question “Why is cohousing sustainable?”
Very thoroughly. For more of Graham Meltzer’s observations about cohousing, read his book Sustainable Community: Learning from the Cohousing Model, available at www.trafford.com. In the Fall of 1996, I undertook a grand tour of North American cohousing by visiting all of the established cohousing communities in New England, the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, and California. I spent three to five days in each of eighteen communities and made short visits to four or five more.
Older Women’s Cohousing (OWCH) OWCH is planning a cohousing community in London for older women.
Website: www.owch.org.uk Email: owch.org@googlemail.com Address: Older Women’s Cohousing, PO Box 44628, London N16 8WH About OWCH. Lifetime Cohousing Community - Aims and Guiding Principles. Our Aims It is our intention to create a collaborative housing community for people who wish to build a supportive and self-responsible lifestyle for their later years. Our community will support our members to grow older together and encourage them to sustain personal choice and be of value to the community at large. Our Guiding Principles: We resolve to: Share a vision of mutual support and co-operation to enhance and extend our wellbeing and personal choice Stay in contact and in relationship with one another whatever process is happening Create a way of shared living that enables us to continue to grow and be healthy.
Welcome to the UK Cohousing Network. Welcome to the UK Cohousing Network. Using the CLT model to acheive long term affordability. Mixing up the models: Cohousing & Community Land Trusts Increasingly cohousing groups are enquiring about how they might learn from the community land trust sector to provide long term affordable housing solutions for people on middle and low incomes that are priced out of the housing market.
Legal mechanisms developed by local community land trust's have been successfully applied in a variety of contexts (mainly rural to date but several urban schemes are in the advance planning stages) to prevent private speculation and retain the affordability of a property beyond the initial purchaser. The Mutual Home Ownership model is a good mechanism to consider alongside the options below. The Community Land Trust Network website has excellent resources outlining the different development approaches of CLT's, financial planning tools and template documents for partnering with housing associations (of which i have sign posted a number of cohousing groups to).
Community Land Trusts. Dutch Cohousing Association (LVCW) The Intentional Communities Directory is part of the Intentional Communities website, a project of the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC). Intentional Communities can update their listings online so you get the most up to date information possible. You can add your community now. If you are looking for an intentional community, ecovillage, cohousing, commune, co-op, or other cooperative living arrangement, browse through our community lists – geographic, or by type of community (ecovillages, communes, cohousing, co-ops, or christian), look at our maps, or search our database.
Egebakken Community Housing. Communities Directory Online. Member - Isabella De Maddalena - project - Community Living. Brøset - towards a carbon neutral housing settlement. Brøset - towards a carbon neutral housing settlement. Viikki Eco Neighbourhood Street in Viikki During the period 1998 to 2002, an experimental area of ecological building of international importance is being constructed at Viikki, a district to the Northeast of the centre of Helsinki. Viikki is situated 7 kilometres from the heart of Helsinki. By 2010, Viikki residential district will be completed with Science Park as its centre and will then provide 6 000 jobs, places for 6 000 students and homes for 13 000 people. During the preparation of the local plan, there was a lively public debate about the ecology of land use and building, and great potential was seen in Viikki for an experiment in environmentally-conscious building.
Buildings The Viikki eco neighbourhood blocks are the result of long-term work aimed at putting ecological principles into practice in actual building. Water An aim was to cut consumption of pure water by more than 20%. It happens in AIH. Som noget nyt har vi siden sommeren 2012 tilbudt Bed and Breakfast her i Andelssamfundet i Hjortshøj, 14 km nord for Århus.
Brøset - towards a carbon neutral housing settlement. Vauban is a neighborhood of 5000 inhabitants and 600 jobs 4km to the south of the town center in Freiburg, Germany. It was built as “a sustainable model district”. Construction was begun in the mid-1990s, and finished in 2006. Goals A vision for the development of the Vauban district with the following goals: A transportation concept encouraging car-free living and placing restrictions on private automobile ownership, the design of a “neighborhood of short trips”, or high density, an ecologically-friendly district heating system with renewable energy sources, a mix of social classes, priority for private developers and co-ops over corporate investors. . ( The growth of cohousing in Europe. While community living is not a new phenomenon, one must acknowledge that with the success of cohousing, the idea is being spread for the first time on a global scale.
If globalization tends to destroy cultural variation, the flexibility of cohousing has allowed it to resist that trend and to adapt to people’s needs in different cultural contexts. A look at how cohousing is being implemented in Europe demonstrates that idea. Dammen.dk » Om Dammen.dk. Sættedammen. Living together – Cohousing Ideas and Realities Around the World.
This book, edited by Professor Dick Urban Vestbro, is the most comprehensive documentation available about housing with common spaces and shared facilities. It is based on the first International Conference on Collaborative Housing, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden in May 2010. The book contains all 11 plenary papers, three specially written papers and elaborate reports from the 16 conference workshops. It includes examples from Europe, North America, Australia, Japan and other countries. With its 234 pages and 180 illustrations it is an excellent source for researchers, housing companies, politicians, activists and non-government organizations interested in how to solve challenges such as the ageing of societies and other transformations in household structures, how to relate to problems of urban anonymity and isolation, and how to promote gender equality, neighborly cooperation and sustainable lifestyles.
The book may be ordered from: kollektivhus.nu(at)gmail.com. Cohousing Now: Links. Web Site: Prose n' Poetry. COHOUSING VIDEOS. Neighbourhoods - Design - Browse by topic - Learn and Improve - Housing LIN. Simpler and better: Housing design in everyone's interest. Housing standards. Search. Lifetime Homes. Advanced Search Query. Springhill Cohousing Stroud. Debate considers the reality of Low Carbon Communities.
Bibliography: Cohousing. Creating Cohousing. In Cohousing We Trust. Cohousing Directory - List of Cohousing Communities. ~ - BRIGHTON~ECO~COHOUSING~COMMUNITY~~~~ ~ - BRIGHTON~ECO~COHOUSING~COMMUNITY~~~~ Lancaster Cohousing: Home Page. Hackney Cohousing Project. London Countryside Cohousing Group (LoCo) Lilac - Affordable strawbale housing community in Bramley. Leeds. 'Strong bond' of Leeds LILAC co-housing residents. Stroud Cohousing. Welcome to the website for the Threshold Centre. Edible Estates. Keywords. Cohousing principles. Is co-housing the way of the future? Handbook for self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable housing.
What are the 6 Defining Characteristics of Cohousing? Urban Design. Diggers and Dreamers - The Guide to Communal Living in Britain. Eco living: why 'co-housing' is the latest property trend. Housing: a lifestyle with community spirit built into the foundations.