Barcelona, 2023

Collaborative Housing and Innovative Practices in Care: An International Exchange. 6 June 2023, Barcelona

          

In early June we hosted a one-day event in Barcelona, focusing on European research, practice and lived experiences at the intersections of collaborative housing (CH), innovative care practices and ageing.

The varied format encouraged cross-learning across five countries and multiple sectors and addressed: ​

How collaborative housing models, including more ‘institutional’ ones with strong residential autonomy, offer care and supportive environments to ‘age in place’; How concepts and practices of care during the life course and ageing processes are infusing spaces of cohabitation; whose needs are met over time; how internal and public policies and designs (social, political, material) reflect this; key challenges and opportunities involved in developing and sustaining innovative collaborative housing with care models; how research, policy and practice may better reflect and respond to these realities.

You can find a detailed description of the day’s presentations and discussions here.

See full programme and information pack, with speaker and group summaries here.

A list of suggested bibliography related to the topic is also available here.

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WATCH Part I: European research

CHIC​     Jim Hudson / University of Bristol / CHIC presentation
RAPSODIA ​    Anne Labit / Orléans University / RAPSODIÂ presentation
Anne’s also written a blog post for the HousingLIN here.​
MOVICOMA | CareNet​    Daniel López Gómez / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/ Research Group CareNet | Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)

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WATCH Part II: European Research​

CARE(4)HOUSING​     Joana Pestana Lages / DINÂMIA’CET | ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa / C4H presentation
CALICO​     An-Sofie Smetcoren / Vrije Universiteit Brussel/ Society and Ageing Research Lab / Care and Living in Community CALICO presentation​
Sergio García García / Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Grupo de Investigación Antropología de las Políticas Sociales y Culturales (APSYC) / The three states of care in collaborative housing, presentation

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WATCH Part III: CH practitioners​ (Part III begins at 1hr 16 mins)

Housing LIN / Jeremy Porteus / HousingLIN presentation
UK Cohousing Network​ / Owen Jarvis / UK Cohousing presentation​
Mayte Sancho / @sancho_mayte ​
Sostre Civic / Yabel Pérez / Sostre Civic Senior Cohousing presentation

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WATCH Part IV: Barcelona policy representatives​

Ana Novoa Pardo / Public health technician, Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB) ​
Javier Burón Cuadrado / Gerente de Vivienda / Housing Manager Barcelona City Council​
Ester Quintana Escarrà / Directora de Servicios Para la Vejez, Instituto de Servicios Sociales de Barcelona

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Collaborative Housing Groups:​

 

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