Category: Collaborative housing

Tenant Boards in Denmark: Best Practices in Supporting Tenant’s Diverse Needs

One of the key themes of this housing festival is diversity in tenant needs.  It is hard to imagine a better example of responsiveness to tenant needs than what is taking place in Copenhagen. Ulia Gregor works for DAB, an organization that houses many citizens across Copenhagen.  In fact, her organization has over 50,000 units.  The speaker… Read More Tenant Boards in Denmark: Best Practices in Supporting Tenant’s Diverse Needs

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The struggle for collaborative housing

Co-housing, collective housing, collaborative housing, co-living, cooperative housing. All different names for one growing housing phenomenon; people are starting to live together again— not with their family members, but with relative strangers. Organised by the Italian organizations Fondazione Housing Sociale and Legacoop abitanti the Collaborative Housing workshop deals with this upcoming housing form. How can… Read More The struggle for collaborative housing

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Design your own floor plan in Sputnik’s Housing Laboratory

Rotterdam-based architecture agency Sputnik has developed Housing Laboratory; a huge temporary installation consisting of white modular walls that can be moved around in order to live experiment with new floor plans. This installation summarises one of the festival’s main themes – diversification. How can we create affordable houses that fits the specific needs of a broad… Read More Design your own floor plan in Sputnik’s Housing Laboratory

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Strength from power: Meriam Koekkoek explains energy cooperatives

As something of a bare necessity for a functional and comfortable modern life, energy efficiency and best practice is a cornerstone of the holistic and inclusive social housing models in much of the world. Energy cooperatives let communities take control of their energy production and supply, and maximise efficiency in supply and maintenance. From HIER Opgewekt… Read More Strength from power: Meriam Koekkoek explains energy cooperatives

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The architects of Sputnik invite us to their Housing Laboratory

One of the most exiting items of the International Social Housing Festival, is the ‘Housing Laboratory’, a one to one mockup in Het Schip Museum that enables visitors to create their ideal apartment, by moving walls and really building their dreams. The Laboratory is conceived by Rotterdam based architectural firm Sputnik. We asked the architects… Read More The architects of Sputnik invite us to their Housing Laboratory

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‘Cooperatives are powerful actors in the sharing economy, playing a lead role in community welfare policies.’

One of the most promising events of the International Social Housing Festival is the Collaborative Housing Workshop, organized by Italian organizations Fondazione Housing Sociale (FHS) and Legacoop Abitanti (LA). We interviewed Giordana Ferri (architect and executive director of FHS) and Rossana Zaccaria (president of Legacoop Abitanti) about their organizations, housing in Italy, and their collaborative… Read More ‘Cooperatives are powerful actors in the sharing economy, playing a lead role in community welfare policies.’

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Deliberate Civic Engagement: Are You Doing Enough?

My fellowship year has allowed me to participate in dozens of interesting meetings and programs.  Recently a door opened that allowed me to observe an ongoing transatlantic dialog between Germany and the USA.  Through connections at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Bundesinstitut fur Bau-Stadt und Raumforschung, I received an invitation to… Read More Deliberate Civic Engagement: Are You Doing Enough?

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