research-l Mailing List: Re: Helen Jarvis UK Cohousing RE: Hello, Welcome and Invitation to everyone

[Abeer Javed (abeerj10]

Hi Helen!

My name is Abeer Javed and I am a member of a housing coop in Houston, Texas (http://www.hausproject.org/). Since becoming deeply involved in the organization (I am in charge of interpersonal conflict and of generally keeping a 16 person house running smoothly, and sit on our non-profit's board) I have been exploring the possibility of going to graduate school (for a PhD) studying intentional communities of the sort. I am in particular interested in (implicit and explicit) power dynamics, social justice, and political efficacy/organizing in the context of coops. I'd be really interested in learning more of your research Helen.

I went to NASCO Institute last month and would highly recommend their shared library as an openly available resource for those interested! 

Best,

Abeer

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Helen Jarvis <helen.jarvis [at] newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

This is a great idea Neil.

My name is Helen Jarvis and I am based in the UK. I live and work in Newcastle upon Tyne (far North East of England): I am a social scientist (urban social geography) at Newcastle University with a special interest in cohousing as one specific _expression_ of community-led housing and the wider umbrella of intentional communities (my focus is on urban grassroots housing, especially where there is an affordability/ social justice and innovative social/mutual dimension; I'm also interested in low impact innovation and post occupancy evaluations but again more from the socio-technical than the pure technical architectural ecological dimensions).
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/helenjarvis.html#background

I am a non-executive board member of the UK Cohousing Network and on this board I have an equivalent responsibility for the research network side to Neil and Angela.
In terms of my knowledge/appreciation of US cohousing I've periodically visited projects on the West Coast since 2001 (because I have a parent/sibling living in Washington and Oregon states) and I visited a handful of cohousing communities in Virginia in 2010 (thanks to Ann Zabaldo as my guide) - but otherwise most of the networking I have engaged in has been in Europe (also in 2010/11 in Australia).  I convened a 2 year, 6 event international academic-practitioner ESRC funded seminar series in the UK.

I hope to attend the 2017 National Cohousing Conference in Nashville to reconnect with cohousing developments in the USA - specifically to draw comparisons and lessons on 'mainstreaming' affordability, plus on retrofitted cohousing/ serendipitous examples of collaboration and sharing of housing and community assets.

Here in the UK I am also part of a forming cohousing community, CoHUT (Cohousing upon Tyne) http://cohousing.org.uk/group/cohousing-upon-tyne-cohut.



Dr. Helen Jarvis
Reader in Urban Social Geography
Newcastle University
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Room 3.70, Daysh Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

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From: research-l [mailto:research-l-bounces+helen.jarvis=newcastle.ac.uk@cohousingresearchnetwork.org] On Behalf Of Neil Planchon
Sent: 02 December 2016 20:39
To: Helen Jarvis <helen.jarvis [at] newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: [research-l] Hello, Welcome and Invitation to everyone

Hello everyone and Happy Friday!

A special welcome to our brand new subscribers!
David P
Ana ?
David C
Kristen S
Abeer J
Susan S
Morten H
and
Teresa M

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Getting to know you…
I, and I know others on Cohousing Research Network’s (CRN) Core team, would love to learn more about all the folks on this list.  There are 40 of us on this list now!  So, I invite you all to share a little about yourself.  Here are some suggestions?

Where you are geographically located? (Country/City) What Cohousing, Intentional or other community do you live in?

What interest you about Cohousing and the CRN?

What would you like to talk about, share and learn?
How would you like to contribute to CRN?

Anything else you’d like to add?

I/We look forward to hearing from you all!

Thank you
Neil
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Neil Planchon CPCC
Certified Co-Active Life Coach
Director, OpenOakland (Code for America) - https://www.openoakland.org Founding Resident of Swan's Market Cohousing - http://www.swansway.com Cohousing Research Network - Core Team/Technology - http://www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org
Longtime volunteer and former staff/board member of the Cohousing Association of the US - http://www.cohousing.org More here https://www.linkedin.com/in/nplanchon



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