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Abstract
Co-housing and shared living environments have been gaining increasing attention worldwide, as they offer significant social, ecological and economic benefits. Indigenous communities across the world had historically lived in collective housing with deep connections to nature, multigenerational relationships and sharing of resources. However, many of these populations have been displaced from land and currently live in homes which are not aligned with their values and traditions. In the last decades, there have been growing efforts to recover these original values and translate them into contemporary housing through participatory design processes. This paper presents findings from interviews with designers working on collective housing projects in two different sides of the Pacific where Indigenous values have been integrated into architecture through co-design. This study, conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Chile, discusses differences and similarities in approaches, and provide insights into the future of housing. The findings reveal the unique contributions from residents to the design of these housing projects to create a sense of community. The methods and participatory practices shared can be valuable to help design socially-connected and regenerative collective housing in other contexts and countries.
Priscila Besen – Lecturer in sustainable and regenerative architecture at Auckland University of Technology. Priscila completed her Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism at UFSC, Brazil, and her Master and PhD in Sustainable Architecture at The University of Auckland. Her research, teaching and practice aim to develop better design practices to create regenerative, healthy, liveable built environments for a post-carbon future. She integrates life-cycle thinking into built environment design through her research on post-occupancy evaluation, co-design, life-cycle energy performance, adaptive reuse and retrofit.
Iván Ivelic Yanes: Dr. from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Spain, he is currently a professor at the School of Architecture and Design PUCV in which he has worked since 1995. Member and inhabitant of the Open City of Amereida since 1970 until today, where he has contributed to the discipline in the exploration of new ways to think and develop architecture collectively and under an artistic conception.
Sibyl Bloomfield (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rārua, Ngai Te Rangi): A landscape architect and Senior Lecturer in Huri te Ao / School of Future Environments at AUT in the Architecture and Future Environments programme. Primary researcher in Marsden-funded research project: Nature-based Urban design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania (NUWAO). Sibyl’s teaching and research practice is grounded in a commitment to shaping our place in the world by engaging in Te Ao Māori, Te Moana nui a Kiwa identity, and diversity, and actively responding to the ecological, socio-cultural and climate crises of the Anthropocene.
Claudio Aguayo: An Associate Professor in Digital Innovation in Education in Te Ara Poutama, the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development at Auckland University of Technology. As a biologist trained in the Santiago school of cognition with a PhD in Education, Claudio draws on three distinct interdisciplinary areas: complexity science, education and technology, and cognitive sciences to explore how digital tools can be best designed to enhance human experience in learning environments. Claudio is the Director of Research & Development for AUT’s AppLab, where he leads the exploration of the design and application of cutting-edge digital technologies for learning in a range of educational settings.
Oliver Brockie, Caleb Mokomoko and Madeleine Grimshaw worked as research assistants on this research project at AUT.
Carol Hernandez, Carolina Varela and Cristobal Jorquera worked as research assistants on this research project at PUCV.