No. 28 (2024): Public works, common value
Essays and Viewpoint

The creation of social value in the participatory design of housing services

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  • Giiulia Vignati,
  • Gianluca Pozzi,
  • Silvia Meazza
Giiulia Vignati
Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano
Gianluca Pozzi
Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano
Silvia Meazza
Fondazione Housing Sociale, Milano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-15870

Published 2024-10-29

Keywords

  • Housing services,
  • Community start-ups,
  • Integrated social management,
  • Collaborative social housing,
  • Community engagement

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Vignati, G., Pozzi, G., & Meazza, S. (2024). The creation of social value in the participatory design of housing services. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, (28), 74–82. https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-15870

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Abstract

The approach to housing that redefines the home as a service transcends the issue of housing as merely private, bringing it back to a trajectory of collective public interest. The paper reflects on initiatives, whose common element is the investment in intangible aspects for community involvement, activating processes and experiments for the development of collaborative spaces and services that extend the scope of intervention to the neighbourhood, generating mechanisms and dynamics of social impact. The processes and experiments described are examples of how, to make such actions feasible, the public sector synergises with the private sector through welfare models requiring innovative management skills that invest and work on the community with an integrated approach for social cohesion.

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