Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Design Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2025.101326

Pablo Wikander, Damian Collins, Joshua Evans

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Abstract

Canada's housing crisis affects low-income immigrants seeking affordable housing. One option for increasing affordability is collaborative housing. However, for collaborative housing to be adequate for immigrants, it is critical to know what designs meet their needs. This study used co-design workshops with low-income recent immigrants in Canada to explore their housing pathways, needs and preferences. Participants developed artefacts corresponding to their dream homes, to minimum acceptable housing, and to collaborative housing. These artefacts were digitally translated into five core models of collaborative housing. The results show that the Research Through Design approach, combined with co-design methods, can be used effectively to identify models of collaborative housing for low-income recent immigrants and to envision alternative housing futures.

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通过设计研究合作住房：以加拿大低收入新移民参与的合作设计工作坊为例

加拿大的住房危机影响了寻求经济适用房的低收入移民。提高可负担性的一个选择是合作住房。然而，对于移民来说，合作住房是足够的，了解什么设计满足他们的需求是至关重要的。本研究采用与加拿大低收入新移民共同设计的工作坊来探索他们的住房途径、需求和偏好。参与者开发了与他们梦想的家、最低可接受的住房和协作住房相对应的人工制品。这些人工制品被数字化转化为协作住房的五个核心模型。研究结果表明，“设计研究”方法与协同设计方法相结合，可以有效地为低收入新移民确定协同住房模式，并展望替代性住房的未来。

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Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.