research-l Mailing List: Re: Welcoming new folks to our listserv!

[Heidi M. Berggren (hberggren]

Hi Kris,

great to meet you, and you have come to the right place! My name is Heidi Berggren, and I am part of the CRN. I am a prof at Univ. Mass-Dartmouth, and have been researching cohousing for some years now.

You might have seen at the CRN link some preliminary analyses we ran at the last National Coho Conference, which relate to the issue of sustainability and longevity of cohousing communities--very rough and preliminary, but we would love to extend/deepen this research:

http://www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org/crn-2017-cohousing-conference/

I am glad you posted for another reason--I happen to live in Rumford, RI, and I went to some of your initial Providence cohousing meetings a couple of years back. I am not sure if this is the same one, I thought they ended up going in the direction of senior community living of some sort. Anyway, I am following the facebook posts for what I think is your group, and I would like to go to the next meeting. Would love to meet you and hear more! Also happy to talk with you more about your research when I see you.

Warmly,

Heidi

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From: research-l <research-l-bounces+hberggren=umassd.edu [at] cohousingresearchnetwork.org> on behalf of Brown, Kristina <kbrown [at] rwu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 1:29 PM
To: Heidi M. Berggren
Subject: Re: [research-l] Welcoming new folks to our listserv!

 

Hello all,

I am Kris Brown from Providence, Rhode Island. I have been interested in Cohousing for a long time and am in the early stages of attempting to organize a Cohousing community here. I am also a mixed methods researcher and policy analyst. I work at a nonprofit within a university and study the intersection of health & housing.

As a researcher, I am very interested in reading current research on the sustainability or longevity of Cohousing communities.

Thank you for welcoming me to the research network.

Take care,

Kris

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From: research-l <research-l-bounces+kbrown=rwu.edu [at] cohousingresearchnetwork.org> on behalf of Mike Librik <mlibrik [at] grandecom.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 12:36:52 PM
To: Brown, Kristina
Subject: Re: [research-l] Welcoming new folks to our listserv!

 

I'm in Austin, a city getting to be famously expensive to live in.  A
few friends and I are looking at a way to consolidate resources, live
close to the city and its culture, and support each other as we get
older.  So we're looking at the legal, zoning, and architectural issues
of living close community.

As a social unit, the challenges we face aren't so much that of
co-housing, with its larger communities, diversity and decision making,
but that of polyamory, since we're all involved with each other in some
way.  We're taking a cue from Katherine Hepburn's observation that men
and women shouldn't really live together, but would be better off living
next door to each other. Architecturally this raises questions of
arrangement of common space (valuable both for economy as well as our
shared relationships) and private space, along with private access (we
all have relationships outside this cohousing group, both intimate and
familial).

We've done some house-sitting together to test out living together, and
the main thing lacking is our ability to define our private space and
access, better than just separate bedrooms off a common hallway.  As it
is, I know from my own extroverted experience that I'd largely haunt the
common space. I've made a nuisance of myself this way in other shared
housing situations where others got tired of seeing me in the kitchen. 
Another partner want the most private house and introverted private
time. The third would rather sleep in a trailer that they can drag off
on adventures given the whim.  We have varying degrees of experience in
cooperative or shared living.  Overall it is less our interest in
cohousing that drives us, besides the economic aspect, and more our
interest in each other.

Both cohousing and polyamory share aspects of being modern, post-hippie
rational re-thinking of boundaries in important relationships.  Having
just seen the movie Coco, I've taken an interest in that Mexican
architecture of semi-private dwellings off a central courtyard, with
shared kitchen and workshop space.

On 12/22/2017 12:35 PM, Neil Planchon wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> Happy December and Holidays to you all….
>
> As is my custom, I am letting our current subscribers know that some new folks have decided to joined us.
>
> They are Jed Horwitt, Lorenza Maluccelli, Jessica Santos, Margaret Critchlow, Kristina Brown and Mike Librik.
>
> Welcome one and all!  We are delighted that you have decided to join us.  Please take a moment to introduce yourselves, tell us where you live, your interests and what connects you to Cohousing and us. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Cordially,
> Neil
>
> CRN team. Communications
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