On January 24th the Collaborative Housing Limerick group held a public meeting in the Urban Co-Op entitled "Exploring Alternative Housing Solutions: Collaborative Housing". The purpose of this meeting was; to publicise the work of the Collaborative Housing Limerick group, to gauge public interest in collaborative housing models, to provide a forum for the public to ask speakers about their work, and to understand the wants and needs of both the individuals in attendance and the speakers (which included architects and developers) when creating a collaborative housing model. The meeting was structured into three rounds, with time for discussion in between each round. The event was recorded, and so each of the speakers (including myself) can present their work to you now: Presentation 1 Davie Philip, Cloughjordan Cohousing, Cultivate Living and Learning Housing Ourselves: Community-led approaches cultivate.ie www.thevillage.ie Bio: Davie Philip has spent the last 22 years actively promoting the ideas of sustainable communities in Ireland. He is a founding member of Sustainable Projects Ireland, the company behind the ecovillage project in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary where he is now based. Davie hosts events and facilitates groups working on collaborative approaches to help their localities flourish through the Resilience Lab at Cultivate Living and Learning, a co-operative that he co-founded with Ben Whelan in 2000. Presentation 2 Kim O’Shea, Interaction Design Centre, UL The Lived Experience: A Field Trip to Aarhus www.idc.ul.ie Bio: Kim O'Shea is a second year PhD student in the University of Limerick. She is studying the cohousing movement and aims to create a resource to allow collaborative housing action groups in Ireland to collaborate, and share knowledge and experiences. Presentation 3 Hugh Brennan, Ó Cualann Co-housing Alliance Affordable Housing – (It’s NOT) a complex issue ocualann.ie Bio: Hugh Brennan co-founded Ó Cualann Co-housing Alliance with William Black in 2014. Hugh had studied Civil/Structural Engineering in DIT Bolton St., has 30 experience years in construction including 10 years on housing and sanitation in South Africa & in Haiti. Ó Cualann “Building communities – not just houses” has developed a model for integrated, cooperative, affordable homes, privately funded, that can be replicated and scaled around the country. Presentation 4 Sonja Graf, Cotati Cohousing It Takes a Village: Growing up in Community www.cotaticohousing.org Bio: Sonja Graf has lived in intentional community since she was a young child. Growing up in Northern California, her family participated in the development of a successful cohousing community which was established in 2003. She has since then spent two years in Lebensgarten Ecovilllage in Germany, where her parents still live, and at the age of 16 she moved to Auroville, an intentional community in southern India. She is now completing her A in Ethnochoreology at UL. Presentation 5 Sarah Newell, Limerick City and County Council Snapshot of Housing in Limerick *the Affordability Challenge* Bio: Sarah Newell has in excess of 13 years experience in urban and regional planning. With qualifications in Planning, Architecture and Public Management, her work experience to date has encompassed three strands of mutually supportive work - private consultancy, semi-state and public sector service. She currently is on assignment from the Housing Agency, Dublin, to Limerick City and County Council to manage and implement the Rebuilding Ireland and Limerick Regeneration programmes. Presentation 6 Rosie Webb, Limerick City and County Council Renewal in the Historic Georgian Neighborhood cityxchange.eu, adaptivegovernancelab.wordpress.com Bio: Rosie Webb is the Senior Architect in Economic Development at Limerick City and County Council. She leads programmes of work to stimulate and consolidate the historic city centres of Limerick City, its towns and villages. She provides strategic vision and plan implementation using projects, programmes and initiatives dedicated to place-making and physical development. She is also a lecturer at the School of Architecture at University of Limerick and founder of the Adaptive Governance Lab at SAUL. Her research at the AGL focuses on testing new ways to build strong community networks for greater citizen involvement to influence the design and operation of shared public spaces. Presentation 7 Padraig Flynn, SOA Research Learning from Berlin: Ground-Up and Top-Down approaches to CoHousing in Ireland. www.soa.ie Bio: Padraig Flynn is an architect and co-founder of SOA Research. SOA is a non-profit action research collaborative formed to develop possibilities for self-organised housing in Ireland. SOA are planning a number of events in 2019 to explore and promote the oppotunities for CoHousing and Community Land Trust initiatives here. Presentation 8 Lindsay Mitchell and Áine Nic Charthaigh, Collaborative Housing Limerick Collaborative Housing and Limerick: Some Explorations www.collaborativehousinglimerick.ie www.facebook.com/cohousinglimerick Bios: Lindsay Mitchell has been interested in cohousing for a long time and has welcomed the opportunity to be part of Collaborative Housing Limerick. She came to the Limerick area from Scotland over 40 years ago and her hope is that the time is now right for the creation of one or more collaborative housing projects in Limerick. She works as a psychotherapist in Limerick City and is currently involved with a community planning group in North Clare and creative textile groups. Áine Nic Charthaigh lives in Limerick with her dad and teenage daughter. She lived as part of the Cloughjordan eco neighbourhood for a year and is very interested in seeing collaborative housing models created in or near urban areas. She works in the field of education and is involved in climate change and sustainability projects in her daughter's school.
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AuthorI graduated with a Masters in Research from the University of Limerick. My topic of research is cohousing. This blog documents my research and any news articles related to collaborative housing. Archives
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