The position of young adults on the Amsterdam housing market: How to better connect system world and life world?

In recent years, the housing market of Amsterdam, traditionally known for its large share of social rental dwellings, experienced a trend of commodification and financialization. Due to its central position and good facilities, the Dutch capital has become very popular among both home seekers and investors.

Workplace affordances of social well-being: a conceptual framework

The prolonged working from home during the recent pandemic has increased awareness of the social function of the office: employees missed informal social interaction with co-workers, face-to-face meetings, and spontaneous encounters. If the trend of hybrid working persists, one of the main functions of the physical office will be to support face...

The Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Pilot Project of a Bahay Kubo Inspired Floating Home

In the overpopulated deltas of the Philippines people live in are-as that see floods regularly. The floods are being caused by a com-bination of tides, heavy rainfall and land subsidence. The demand for safe and affordable housing is immense, yet available dry land is scarce. By implementing floating homes in vacant former rice fields,...

Expected user needs towards the post-Covid office: better support of social interactions and concentration

Background and aim – While remote working is not a new phenomenon, Covid-19 has forced many office workers to work from home for long consecutive periods. Recent research shows that while most of them say they can work productively from home, many feel less connected to their colleagues. This study explores how these experiences may influence...

Reflection-in-Action When Designing Organizational Processes: Prototyping Workshops for Collective Reflection-in-Action

In this paper on designing organizational processes, we combine insight on reflection-in-action with the role of reflection and experimenting from the organizational routine dynamics literature. Illustrated through a case at a strategy consultancy, we show how a prototyped workshop can elicit reflection-in- action when designing organizational...

Breaking the Stigma: Faculty and Student Perceptions and Experiences with OER

Over the last few years, Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia, has been releasing Textbook Transformation Grants to promote creation and adoption of open educational resources across USG institutions. Many of the faculty at Kennesaw State University, located just outside Atlanta, Georgia, have taken...

Pathways of Dutch and German Social Renting

The pathways that Dutch and German housing policies took in the past decades resulted in two different rental markets. The Dutch policies have delivered the largest social rental sector in the Western world, while Germany has produced one of the largest private rental sectors in Europe. The latter implies that officially no social rental sector...

The making of performativity in designing [with] smart material composites

As the material becomes active in disclosing the fullness of its capabilities, the boundaries between human and nonhuman performances are destabilized in productive practices that take their departure from materials. This paper illuminates the embodied crafting of action possibilities in material-driven design (MDD) practices with...

Understanding preferences for the residential environment using Affordance-based theory

The decreasing importance of socio-economic factors in choosing a place to live gives more room to other motivational factors. These can be examined using affordance-based theory (Gibson, 1979), which explores what use the environment has to the user. In a telephone survey, 738 respondents were asked for their preferred residential environment...

Affordance and behavior setting: A multi-level ecological perspective in the study of the meaning of habitat

URBox: High tech energy and informal housing

This paper reports on the URBox concept encompassing the high tech end of solar energy and informal low cost and affordable housing. It aims to contribute to solving the global energy crisis by building solar energy settlements in deserts where land is affordable and sunshine in abundance. First the award winning Solar City 2050 is described and...

Affordable housing in Portugal and Sao Paulo municipality: Comparison of space standards and socio-economic indicators

Housing finance between social needs and economic realities: The dilemma of policy transfer under neo-liberalism

The aim of this paper is to show how the interplay between social needs and economic realities affects housing policy in developing countries. The paper addresses the very topical issue of housing finance policy for low-income dwellers in rapidly urbanizing African countries. The paper locates housing finance firmly within the neo-liberal...

A budget approach for comparing housing affordability

In this paper the affordability of housing in the Belgian region of Flanders and the Netherlands is analyzed, using both the expense-to-income ratio and residual income as indicators of affordability. Residual income is obtained by deducting net housing expenses from disposable income, whereas the former is the ratio of net housing expenses to...

Innovative social sales programs: Valuation and risk issues

Papers workshops. In recent years, Dutch housing associations have introduced a number of innovative types of sale, having in common that a house is sold to the tenant at a discount. In this way, buying a house becomes affordable for lower-income households. On the other hand the housing association obtains cash, which can be used for (social)...

Breaching the limits of owner occupation? Supporting low-income buyers in the inflated Irish housing market

Workshop 3. Session B.

An introduction in the ecology of spatio-temporal affordances in airspace