A nomadic workshop to bootstrap a knowledge transfer project on cooperative housing. Zurich, July 25-27, 2016
NetHood and INURA Zurich Institute, in the context of the MAZI project and INURA Coop Initiative, are hosting two guests from Athens for a nomadic workshop in Zurich. The goal is to start a long-term collaboration on a knowledge transfer project between Zurich and Athens on the topic of cooperative housing, co-living, and in general creative and collaborative ways to share space in the city.
Between July 25 and 27, together with Dimitra Siatitsa (INURA Athens) and Constantina Theodorou (Co-app building), we will visit different local cooperative projects, like Mehr-als-wohnen, Zwicky areal, Kalkbreite, Kraftwerk1, Dreieck, Wogeno, and also meet members of the recent NeNa1 cooperative.
We will discuss in smaller and larger groups about what is generic and what is context-specific in the conception, design and implementation of these cooperative housing and living projects in Zurich.
This will hopefully stimulate local groups in Athens, like the Co-app building and INURA Athens, to develop similar projects inspired from and adapted to the Greek reality. At the same time, this exchange will be also an opportunity for self-reflection for the active participants in Zurich, potentially helping the existing projects to adjust to the changing landscape and requirements of future projects, similarly to the NeNa1 learning process from previous experiences with Kraftwerk1 and Kalkbreite.
The discussion will then continue at the Greek Pavillion of the Venice Architecture Biennale with the #ThisIsACo-op workshop “Co-housing practices. Building protocols for Athens”.
Detailed schedule
Monday – July 25th
11:00 Dreieck Tour – https://www.dasdreieck.ch
Gartenhofstrasse 27, 8004 Zürich
– Visit and discussion with Thomas Raoseta and Philipp Klaus
13:00 Lunch and discussion
Helvetiaplatz: Amtshaus, Molkenstrasse 5, 8004 Zürich
15:30 Kalkbreite Tour – http://kalkbreite.net
Kalkbreitestrasse 2, 8003 Zürich
– Visit and discussion with Fred Frohofer
17:30-20:30 Kalkbreite Flex1: Apero and discussion
– Seed talks (10 min each): Philipp Klaus, Constantina Theodorou, Jens Martignoni, Tobias Bernet, Marco Jacomella
Tuesday – July 26th
14:30 Wogeno – http://wogeno-zuerich.ch/haeuser/stadt-zuerich/klingenstrasse-23/
Klingenstrasse 23, 8005 Zürich
– Visit and discussion with Rayelle Niemann
16:30 Kraftwerk1 Tour – http://kraftwerk1.ch
Hardturmstrasse 269, 8005 Zürich
– Visit and discussion with Philipp Klaus
18:00 Kraftwerk1 Dachraum: Apero and discussion
– Seed talks (10 min each): Andreas Wirz, Dimitra Siatitsa, Thomas Raoseta, Despina Papadopoulou, Vesna Tomse, …
– Discussion about the workshop at the Greek Pavillion in Venice Biennale
Wednesday – July 27th
10:00-11:30 Mehr-als-wohnen Tour – http://mehralswohnen.ch
Hagenholzstrasse 104b, 8050 Zürich
– Visit and discussion with Claudia Thiesen
13:00 Lunch at Kraftwerk1
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Collaborative work
Toward a comparative framework for knowledge sharing
During the visits to the different initiatives we will try to record in an organized manner important details of their design and evolution in order to understand better their similarities and differences and the range of decisions that can be taken when one wishes to create a new initiative in a radically different environment (i.e., in Greece)
More specifically, we will collaboratively edit a working document identifying certain important “variables” that can characterize a cooperative housing project: vision, bootstrapping, community building, legal framework, financing, governance and decision-making, sharing practices and social activities, important turning points, and more.
Here is a first draft of the document which will be continuously edited during the visit and will guide the workshop at the Greek Pavillion in Venice Biennale. http://mazi.inf.uth.gr:9001/p/zurich_housing_comparison.
Participants
(+ tentative title of a short seed talk during the different gatherings)
Andreas Wirz: The cooperative housing market in Zurich and Switzerland
Constantina Theodorou: A new co-housing iniative in Athens and the #ThisIsACo-op theme at the 15th Venice Biennale
Daniel Blumer: The cooperative housing scene in Bern
Despina Papadopoulou: The perspective of a Greek architect living and working in Zurich
Dimitra Siatitsa: Thinking about collective property models within the Greek housing system: potentials and difficulties
Fred Frohofer: Living in the Kalkbreite cooperative
Ileana Apostol: Socially integrated neighborhoods through housing cooperatives in Zurich
Jens Martignoni: The four traditions behind the cooperative housing movement in Zurich
Marco Jacomella: A knowledge transfer project between Switzerland and Italy
Panayotis Antoniadis: The MAZI project and the possible roles of technology
Philipp Klaus: Working and living in Kraftwerk1, and the INURA Coop initiative
Rayelle Niemann: Living at Klingenstrasse 23 (Wogeno project)
Sanna Frischknecht: A new initiative in Basel, Warmbächli
Thomas Raoseta: The NeNa1 & 5im5i projects
Thorsten Kuehn: A new member and resident of the Karthago cooperative.
Tobias Bernet: Networks of housing cooperatives in Germany and Switzerland and attempts at a knowledge transfer to Greece (Athens Biennale, project AKINITO)
Vesna Tomse: Temporary uses: Experiences from Zurich
(to be extended)
Reblogged from Nethood
CoHab Athens 