ABSTRACT
For housing researchers, the discovery of Functional Collaboration as a scientific approach to housing is one such discovery. It is within the horizon of Functional Collaboration that housing researchers can progressively improve their capacity and skills to understand housing, offset the prejudices and biases of the dominant culture and provide practical advice to decision-makers. Throughout history, science has always sought to work on the basis of the most developed foundations for research. The social sciences have focused on history, critique and implementation. Functional Collaboration brings all these methods together into one framework. Functional Collaboration is a framework for collaborative creativity that, on the one hand, maintains the unity of a scientific approach to housing and more effectively brings about better human living and, on the other hand, promotes creativity and diversity within housing research. Sustained progress in housing is even more difficult.
