Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
part of Citizen Science
In this paper, the authors lay out their vision of Housing for Good (HFG). This concept envisions citizens who can catalyse communities inclusively, empowered by affordable housing, time, accessible space and security.
Housing for good aims to make communities healthier, greener, stronger and more joyful.
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Relationships with nature must be built into our communities, lives and homes in order to enable society to develop and navigate new socio-cultural models that catalyse sustainable actions.
Ecological Citizenship (EC) is an approach which encompasses activities that establish and catalyse these sustainable actions. One such initiative under the EC umbrella is the concept of Housing for Good (HFG). Drawing on findings from workshops run in two locations the UK, the authors unpack an HFG as an accessible housing opportunity, benefiting nature, citizens and communities.
HFG is an ambitious concept, through which citizens are provided with highly affordable housing in exchange for their contributions in making communities healthier, greener, stronger and more joyful. By improving the “places we call home” in this way, the authors envisage greater possibilities for the practices of ecological citizenship to flourish.
Project / The Ecological Citizen(s) project cultivates trans-disciplinary collaboration and research to enable a digital sustainable society for positive climate action.
Journal article / Publicly accessible housing data and machine learning hold genuine promise for large-scale urban retrofit strategy.
Past event / Luke Gooding presented a new paper which focuses on scaling participatory retrofit across diverse housing stocks.
Other publication / Retrofitting can be about more than just energy efficiency; it can enhance nature connectedness, circularity and can heighten a sense of ecological citizenship.
