ENHR working group Collaborative Housing Call for papers - 2017 ENHR conference, Tirana 4-6 September 2017

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For a second year since its creation, the ENHR working group Collaborative Housing will host a series of workshop sessions at the 2017 ENHR annual conference in Tirana. Papers focusing on the following three main themes are particularly welcome:

a)  The potential of collaborative models within the affordable housing sector: This sub-theme is related to the overall topic of the ENHR conference in Tirana. Many urban and rural housing contexts are experiencing upward pressure on real-estate prices and more affordable housing needs to be developed to counterbalance this negative trend. Collaborative housing models often include alternative and radical approaches to housing finance, such as to exclude their schemes from market speculation. Furthermore, the mobilisation of self-help resources and collective social capital can also have benefits in terms of housing affordability. We feel that further research is needed to explore the relation between collaborative housing and affordability.

b)  Conceptual and methodological approaches in collaborative housing research: With this sub-theme we encourage further theoretical enquiry into the nature and characteristics of collaborative housing. W e invite contributions from different disciplinary backgrounds and welcome papers applying various theoretical perspectives to develop a better and more comprehensive conceptual understanding of this phenomenon. What are useful methodological frameworks to analyse different aspects of collaborative housing in and across territorial contexts?

c)  Types and forms of collaborative housing: Finally, we want to encourage paper submissions that deal with developing typologies in the collaborative housing fields based on key dimensions such as tenure, core values, resident involvement, legal/organisational forms, actors etc.

The working group co-ordinators are looking forward to receiving your abstract by 1 April 2017. Abstracts should provide a clear idea of the research question, theoretical basis, methods applied and contribution to existing knowledge in the field. Abstracts should be sent to [log in to unmask] and will be reviewed and selected until 30 May 2017. Full papers will be expected until 31 July 2017.

Deadline for the Abstract Submission: 12/04/2017

Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 30/05/2017

Deadline to submit a full paper: 31/07/2017

In addition, please email your abstract and any questions you may have to all coordinators of the ENHR Working group “Collaborative Housing”:

Dr Darinka Czischke

Delft University of Technology , Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Dr Claire Carriou

University of Paris Ouest Nanterre Laboratory Mosaïques UMR LAVUE CNRS 7218 E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Dr Richard Lang

Johannes Kepler University Linz Institute for Innovation Management (IFI) & University of Birmingham School of Social Policy E-mail: [log in to unmask]