Living Apart, Together: Cohousing as a Site for ICT Design

Tom  Jenkins

doi:10.1145/3064663.3064751

Living Apart, Together: Cohousing as a Site for ICT Design

Tom Jenkins

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper presents qualitative studies of cohousing, a model where individual homes cluster around common space, share some meals weekly, and make community decisions together via consensus. It analyzes 80 descriptions of cohousing community websites to reveal the values common to cohousing, as well as site visits to three cohousing communities in the USA. These consist of tours, attending multiple common meals, and interviews with residents to gain insight into cohousing practices and experiences. The goal of this work is to understand how cohousing is lived and structured with an eye towards considering this model of living from an HCI perspective. Keeping that in mind, this paper concludes with a discussion of the relevance of cohousing to existing and emerging trends in HCI such as civics, technologies for building community, and how cohousing might unravel the concept of a "smart home."

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Number of pages	12
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	10 Jun 2017
Pages	1039-1051
ISBN (Print)	9781450349222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064751
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jun 2017 → 14 Jun 2017 https://dblp.org/db/conf/ACMdis/ACMdis2017.html

Conference

Conference	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	10/06/2017 → 14/06/2017
Internet address	https://dblp.org/db/conf/ACMdis/ACMdis2017.html

Keywords

Domesticity
qualitative studies
design research
cohousing
intentional communities
values

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