[p2p-research] co-housing typology

[Alex Rollin]

I started a document on this yesterday, how funny.

I mean, it's really just an empty page, but, I've got some ideas.

It's in the "P2PStack" at http://p2pfoundation.net/P2PStack

The document is called:
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Development_and_Management_of_Common_Resources

I'm taking a round-a-bout approach, defining various P2P Metrics,
currencies, collaboration systems, and some additional concepts like
sustainability, transparent, and especially a definition of "common
resources," a critical concept for something like this.

There's a couple pages on some ideas for collaborating together on the wiki at:
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Collaboration_Stack_Architecture

Logins are open, so drop on by if you want to create it together!

Alex Rollin
http://p2pfoundation.net/User:GoodRollin

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm looking for a volunteer to produce a basic co-housing typology, as
> suggested here below by john thackara:
> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2010/06/of_apocalypse_a.php
>
>
>
> ] Workshop on housing
>
> I then joined a group that had ninety minutes to discuss housing: How to
> organize and use the space we've already got - and how, using what
> materials, to build new homes and refurbish 30 million (in the UK) existing
> ones.
>
> (By now I had realised that the function of Trasition Town encounters is to
> alert people to the existence of different kinds of knowledge - not to
> 'solve' complex - and often unsolvable - challenges).
>
> In this spirit, we discussed the need to distinguish between different kinds
> of co-housing, co-operative housing, and intentional communities. What's
> needed, we agreed, is an easy-to-understand 'palette' of shared housing
> models. In our group, a consensus emerged that small private spaces, with
> one's own front door, around a larger collective space containing shared
> facilities, seemed right - as is the case in many African villages and
> Chinese 'Hula" buildings.
>
> Why do planners go on about the 'need' for more and more one person
> dwellings, someone asked? Why don't planners and policymakers make it easier
> to share resources, including space? Why indeed. Oil depletion means that
> these 'needs' are not a long-term option.
>
> But questions of 'ownership' are powerful in the culture - not least because
> people value tradable assets. Besides, many local councils oppose
> 'studentification'.
>
> On the plus side, we already have a lot of housing - but it needs to be
> insulated. Natural materials are not necessarily the greenest insulation
> choice, we are told. Modern forms of insulation are more efficient that hair
> from goats, sheep - or humans. Artifical high-tech foams might be energy
> intensive to make - but would they not be the best thing to spend our
> remaining energy on?
>
> A cultural battle looms. The best solution is to cover the outside of every
> home in Britain with ten inches of foam.
>
> A man from England's oldest intentional community told us about his hut made
> of straw bales, timber offcuts and second hand windows. Others praised the
> resource efficiency of favelas and shanty towns, where not even a nail is
> wasted.
>
> 'Hopelessly avant garde', said an expert in Saxon building techniques; he
> wanted Devon County Council's Mineral Planning Committee to reverse policies
> that undervalue rubblestone.
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