Built-In Messages
Presenters: Stefani Danes
Audiences:
Emerging Communities, Thriving Communities, Cohousing Professionals
Time: Sunday 10:45-11:45
We rarely stop to think about what the places around us tell us, but we rely on what they say to know where we are, where we’re going, how to act, and what to expect from other people. The physical form of a community conveys messages about who lives there, what goes on there, how people relate to each other, and quite a lot more. This session will focus on what cohousing communities – the buildings and landscape – have to say about the people and life there. We will look at a variety of examples to see what messages they are sending and how we can design communities to send the messages we intend.
Stefani Danes is an architect who also teaches in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon. She has been planning neighborhoods and designing housing for over 20 years. Her involvement in cohousing comes from a passion about making places for community. She is part of a cohousing group forming in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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