Re: Cohousing Benefits Presentation -- any ideas?
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org)
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 06:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
I agree that it would be very desireable to have research documenting
the Benefits of Cohousing.  I will be attending half of the Cohousing
Research Network (CRN) 's day on Networking and Presentation of Works
in Progress (see
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TMulZm4rLLn65QnuqOB2axSh2Hplut0kp4kGf_xI6OA/edit
 )
at the cohousing conference the end of May in Durham
( see http://www.cohousing.org/2015conference ).
(The other half day I will attend the Urban Innovation: Durham Coho
Case Study.  There will so much of interest at the conference one
needs to go with a partner (or two) to cover more of it...)

Those of us who think of the world in terms of rationality like and
need research but...

There is much evidence that what really influences people is narative,
stories, conceptual metaphors etc. There may be research results that
support this contention but I could not find much suitable to
reference for this post. See George Lakoff's book Don't Think of an
Elephant!

So Emilie, whether you come up with all the research you'd like or
not, be sure to include a good narative about the Benefits of
Cohousing and I see no reason to voluntarily emphasize the lack of
research.

BTW in terms of research design, do we have enough cohousing to
draw valid conclusions like Ann was wishing for?

Fred, who thinks dangling pariticiples are useful and ok sometimes :)

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