ABSTRACT
The role of people in the design and delivery of social housing has never been more crucial or had so much potential. At this time, across Europe radical movements concerning participatory processes in all areas of society were initiated and new ideas for collective living models came into sharp focus in the social democracies of northern Europe, which rejected both public authority and market inertia. The word “community” has become a loaded term when it comes to regeneration projects. It is often in the face of adversity or with a threat of upheaval that the potential for organisation and cooperation within a community comes to the fore. The main emphasis of the project is the will of a self-organised community with the common aim to live together in the city in a sustainable, collaborative and open-minded way. The design strategy was initiated from the outset as a participatory process for the planning of the communal spaces and individual apartment units.
