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Are you interested in working together on cohousing in Melbourne and surrounds?

 

 

Cohousing is a practical form of intentional community. The concept started in Denmark when a group of dual income families were searching for better child care and a way to share evening meal preparation.

 

Interest in this approach is based on the need most people have to feel a part of the neighbourhood they live in, whilst retaining a clear sense of ownership and privacy.

 

To contrast cohousing with other forms of intentional community:

 

What distinguishes cohousing?

-      Matching the spatial structure with the intended relationships of the community

-      Planning together

-      Being physically and economically (not ideologically) structured as a community

-      Making contracts together

-      Structuring private and shared spaces, etc.

Summary by Sharon Villines

 

 

-      Cohousing does NOT seek aspire to communal levels of communes or a kibbutz

-      Cohousing does NOT put an overriding emphasis on environment, as eco-villages do

-      Cohousing does NOT seek out people with similar religious or political views

Adapted from Meijering et al. ( 2007)

 

Examples of cohousing

§  Canberra Cohousing (forming)

§  Cascade Cohousing, Hobart (completed)

§  Pinakarri Community, Perth (completed)

§  Would you like your project listed here? Please email me.

 

 

§  List of Eco-village and cohousing projects in NZ

 

 

 

§  List of Cohousing projects in the United States

§  List of Cohousing projects by McCamant & Durrett

 

§  List of Canadian projects

 

 

 

§  List of UK Cohousing Network

§  Samenhuizen (Belgium)

§  WOGENO Munchen (Germany)

§  cohousing in Italy

§  See also –Wohnfabrik in Switserland

§  One historical example is the béguinagea courtyard surrounded by small dwellings. It is often encircled by a wall and secluded from the town proper by one or two gates.