The first post of the CoLab - Research blogseries on COVID19 and Collaborative Housing is written by Bertil Egerö and describes how the pandemic has impacted life in Slottet ("Castle", in Swedish), a cohousing community for senior citizens in Lund, Sweden.
David Kotrba berichtet über eine neue Plattform der FH Campus Wien, durch die der Austausch über Methoden zum ökologischen Bauen angeregt und Know-how ausgetauscht werden soll.
Judith Lembke schreibt in der Frankkfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung über die Probleme von CoLiving und CoWorking in Zeiten des Social Distancing.
Der Verein "Kultur einer Digitalstadt" setzt sich in einer Austellung des Medien- und Installationskünstlers Christian Doeller mit verschiedenen Mechanismen der Digitalisierung unseres Alltags auseinander.
The blogpost written by Liat Rogel and Chiara Gambarana for Co-Lab Research reports on how a few selected collaborative housing projects reacted to the covid19 emergency, exploring patwhays to maintain social ties and proximity without being phisically together, when it became imperative to rethi
The Kalkbreite is a Zurich-based cooperative housing project in line with the Zurich model for cooperative housing, based on city-owned plots of land leased to cooperatives with long-term contracts (for instance, 60 years tenure).
Written by Arvind Dilawar for Shareable, the article reports on the innovative municipal cohousing model pioneered in Bologna, looking at Porto 15, a 35 people-strong, 18-unit cohousing initiative.
Originally published on wtopNews, the article offers an illustrative explanation of the different types of cooperative housing models and strategies, including an overview of decision-making processes and approaches to financing.
Written by Saki Bailey for Shareable, the article discusses the widespread assumption that housing cooperatives necessarily imply affordable, multi-unit housing solutions. It tackles the question of whether housing cooperatives always decommodify housing.