In Search of Supportive Structures for Everyday Life

Horelli, Liisa; Vepsä, Kirsti

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“…The model of action that the Nordic women applied in their decade long project was the collaborative creation of a supportive infrastructure of everyday life 2 . The Journal of Environmental Planning B (EPB 135-130: Methodology a user-sensitive service design within urban planning) latter means that the locality should offer opportunities to integrate dwelling, work and care in a viable way (Horelli & Vepsä 1994).…”

Section: Transitions In the Mastering Of Everyday Lifementioning

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The Methodology of User-Sensitive Service Design within Urban Planning

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“…The intermediary level is a new structure in the neighbourhoods comprising environmentally friendly housing, services, employment, and other activities which support the residents irrespective of age and gender (Horelli & Vepsä 1994). …”

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“…3. A supportive infrastructure of everyday life (Horelli & Vepsä, 1994) A structure in the neighbourhood comprising environmentally friendly housing, services, mobility management and local initiatives that support the residents irrespective of age and gender.…”

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Environmental human-friendliness as a contextual determinant for quality of life

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2006

European Review of Applied Psychology

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The aim of the article is to define some criteria of human-friendly environments and to explain why the concept of environmental human-friendliness (EHF) is important in the analysis and improvement of the quality of people´s lives. EHF is a complex multi-dimensional and multi-level concept that refers to environments or settings which provide support to individuals and different groups so that they can implement their goals or projects, with a potential impact on the subjective well-being. EHF can be described and assessed by an individual criterion (person-environment fit) and a group criterion (collective environment fit). A heuristic model of the conditions for EHF is presented that can be applied in the analysis of the context of well-being and in the envisioning phase of the improvement of conditions for the quality of life.

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“…As a new structure in the neighbourhoods the intermediary level was also to comprise environ-mentally friendly housing, services, employment, and other activities, which may support the residents irrespective of age and gender (Horelli & Vepsä, 1994). …”

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“…The consequence is that the kitchen is mostly interpreted as the female place, whereas the garage or outside spaces are male places (Horelli, 1993). This is not the case with cohousing, in which the patriarchal patterns can be broken and the domestic chores shared between women and men (Horelli & Vepsä, 1994). The residents of cohouses also tend to use a variety of alternative temporalities that interact with spaces and places which in turn affect their gender identities (Jarvis, 2011).…”

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Design for Gender Equality: The History of Co-Housing Ideas and Realities

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2012

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Today's development of alternative types of housing with communal spaces and shared facilities, called cohousing, has been influenced by utopian visions, practical proposals and implemented pro-jects far back in the past. This article traces the driving forces behind the various models of communitarian settlements, cooperative housekeeping, central kitchen buildings, collective housing and collaborative residential experiments while focusing specifically on the design and gender aspects of these models. An emphasis is given to feminist arguments for cohousing, as well as a discussion of the patriarchal resistance against various forms of housing and living based on equality and neighbourly cooperation. The article includes an analysis of the relief of house work burdens and of the possibility for men to be courageously domesticated through this type of housing. The main research methods comprise analyses of literature and the researchers' own practical experiences of cohousing. The authors claim that cohousing in Scandinavian and some other countries has contributed to a more equal distribution of responsibilities for house work. However, the number of people living in cohousing is still too small to influence the gender segregation of labour markets. It is furthermore concluded that design factors, such as the quality of shared spaces, easy access to common rooms and indoor communication, are important for the smooth functioning of cohousing.

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In Search of Supportive Structures for Everyday Life

Cited by 40 publications

References 6 publications

The Methodology of User-Sensitive Service Design within Urban Planning

The Methodology of User-Sensitive Service Design within Urban Planning

Environmental human-friendliness as a contextual determinant for quality of life

Design for Gender Equality: The History of Co-Housing Ideas and Realities

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