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| Collaborative design of Older Women's CoHousing | | Author(s) | Patrick Devlin, Rachel Douglas, Tom Reynolds |
| Journal title | Working With Older People, vol 19, no 4, 2015 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2015 |
| Pages | pp 188-194 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Older women ; Independent housing ; Living with others ; Architectural design ; Participation ; Quality of life ; Well being ; Case studies ; Barnet. |
| Annotation | CoHousing provides a new approach to older people's housing, and meets a demand for similarly minded groups of individuals who would like to grow old together. This paper explores how a Collaborative Design Process (CDP) can work, as applied to a soon-to-be realised project in Barnet, North London. It comprises a report by the architects with comment from an end user on a CDP. It finds that a group of individuals that has invested in building decision-making capacity can participate meaningfully in the design of their future homes. However, this research was focused on one development; work on a wider range of projects would help test its validity. Older Women's CoHousing (OWCH) and similar projects demonstrate an appetite for: mutually supportive, intentional communities; planned downsizing; and contemporary, sociable design for the third age of life. The CDP developed for OWCH was comprehensively documented, has already been adapted for further cohousing developments, and is intended to continue to evolve with the demands made on it. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-160115206 A |
| Classmark | BD: KL: KA: YB3: TMB: F:59: D:F:5HH: 69P: 82L4 |
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