Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing in Australia

[Hans Tilstra (hans.tilstra]

Indeed. Land prices have been a major factor in discouraging many an endeavour 
in both Sydney and Melbourne! However, VicUrban is working on two cohousing-ish 
projects in Melbourne, one in Heidelberg, and one in Dandenong. Land prices 
seem to have had the converse effect in Tasmania, but then I suspect that 
Launceston's demographic is different from Hobart's in terms of interest shown 
in cohousing.

As convenor of the Melbourne Cohousing Network I'm working on a gallery to 
showcase an initiative in which I collaborated with Professor Lou Sauer 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sauer ) and my university's Research Design 
Institute. Watch this space for a showcasing of cohousing designs created for 
three very different sites in & around Melbourne.

regards,

Hans


There is no cohousing in Melbourne or Launceston, yet! In fact, cohousing in 
Australia is lagging way behind USA.

Here are all the projects I know of in Australia. Please let me know
if you find any others:

* Cascade Cohousing in Hobart, Tasmania, not far from Launceston only
2.5 hours drive! Don't have much information on them --
http://www.cascadecohousing.com/ 

* Crystal Waters Village, up north in Brisbane. Much more about
permaculture village than community. No common meals or such. --
http://www.ecologicalsolutions.com.au/crystalwaters/overview/overview.html 

* Illabunda, has land and starting construction. Much less about
community and much more about being self-sufficient. The two familes
make up half of the units and they are trying to attract more --
http://www.illabundavillage.com.au/ 

* Sydney Coastal Ecovillage, still looking for land. More ecovillage
than cohousing, intended to be relatively big -- http://www.scev.org/ 

* Melbourne Cohousing network, definitions and some academic
information, but no links to any existing cohousing in Melbourne --
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cohouse/ 

* Canberra Cohousing, have been "forming" for the last 8 years. The
web site says they were negotiating for land in 2007, so maybe there
is progress -- http://www.canberracohousing.com/ 

Good luck!

Yusuf

-- 
A/Professor Yusuf Pisan
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
http://staff.it.uts.edu.au/~ypisan/ 
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/11353157941770274723 





On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Lynette Loffel
<lynette.loffel [at] earthsong.org.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm planning to move to Melbourne or Launceston in Australia, (from the
> splendid Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood in Auckland, New Zealand).
>
> Please contact me if you can link me to any cohousing projects in the
> areas around those two cities.
>
> Cheers,
> lynette.loffel [at] earthsong.org.nz 
>
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