Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Programming Question
Since cohousing is about community involvement from conception to realization, I would love to know your thoughts. You can be my preliminary clients. Specifically, if I target our demographic (25-40), what communal activities would you want? What communal activities would you not want? Would you want to live in a community that allows children? What about a community that has another agenda like sustainable living, arts, etc? Food for thought...The Danish models that I looked at were so successful because the Danes are more or less a homogeneous group. They share many cultural traditions and ideals. That is not the case in the US. We are a diverse population. How do I address that? What are your thoughts?
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when you say cohousing the bay area comes to my mind. i used to work on doyle street where this place is http://www.emeryville-cohousing.org/
emeryville used to have the highest concentration of artists in the nation, btw. the reason i'm mentioning this is because the artists' demographic seems to have worked for cohousing (i think i mentioned i had another friend who lived in an artists' community in oakland, referred to as "the bunker".)
I'd have to agree with Antigone in the respect that I think you need to define a "user" group of sorts. Im not sure what will bind this demographic together but it will make for a more interesting project.
As for me, I would want to live in a community that has a particular connection to art and design, namely b/c thats our lives. But i think there are myriad other categories to define your co-gousing group
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