New Forming Neuro-Inclusive Cohousing Group in Grass Valley / Nevada City (Nevada County), CA

Join us for this presentation on neuro-inclusive cohousing! Chuck will share his 35 years of experience designing sustainable communities and assist us in getting neuro-inclusive cohousing built here.

Imagine living in a neighborhood that’s welcoming, safe, eco-friendly, and that you helped create. Private homes with generous common facilities. Where people know and care about each other in a village setting.

About this Group
We’re creating a welcoming, enriching, and inclusive community for folks with autism, Down’s syndrome, and other intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) with their families & friends right here in Grass Valley/Nevada City, Nevada County, CA. This community is open to all, including “neurotypical” families and individuals who are open to living beside their more challenged neighbors.

Architect, author, and advocate Charles Durrett is one of the nation’s experts on cohousing and has designed over fifty cohousing communities throughout the U.S. and Canada. With Kathryn McCamant, he co-authored Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities.

About the Event

When: Tuesday, August 6 from 7-8pm

Where: Madellyn Helling Library (980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA 95959)

Free to the public. Donations are welcome.

For questions: call Laurie at (530) 202-7808 or email ndcoho (at) currently.com

*Save the Date: Group Follow-Up Meeting: Saturday, August 10, 2024
This follow up meeting will be for those who are seriously interested in taking the next step in helping see this dream community become a reality.

See and Share the Facebook Event here!

presentation and Discussion at Clio's Books in Oakland, CA

Topic: What should we do with the land under I-980? Could "cohousing" make sense as an equitable and practical option? Consider amongst community.

Join us for an evening discussion with Clio’s Bookstore’s monthly themed night for delving deeply into Oakland-centric topics and examining solutions to the housing crisis.

Discussion will include topics covered in A Solution to Homelessness in Your Town, published by ORO Editions.

Charles Durrett, resident in the USA, is an internationally recognized American architect specializing in housing communities. Over the years, he has visited and attached himself to several Danish housing communities, including Trudeslund and Skråplanet. With speech and pictures, Charles will share perspectives on life in housing communities - including future models - and about when cohousing communities age and about the importance of architecture. Charles draws on decades of experience in designing and creating cohousing communities and living in them himself. Charles has designed more than 55 cohousing around the world, has published several books on the subject, and is an experienced, well-known speaker.

About Skråplanet - we are a housing association established in 1973 and hereby invite friends and interested parties from other housing associations to a lecture on 30 June at 4pm in Skråplanet's Community House.

We hold an open cafe in the community center from 3-6 pm with an invitation to get together and network before and after the lecture. And we are happy to offer a tour of our 50-year-old housing association. We are looking forward to seeing you!

PRACTICAL INFO:

Date & Time: Sunday, June 30 from 3-6pm

Address: Skråplanet 18, 3500 Værløse (the communal house is located in the middle of the building).

Registration and Payment: Registration takes place by paying DKK. 25/person to MOBILEPAY NO: 7187JR. No later than 25 June 2024

Link to the place: https://bofaelleskab.dk/.../bofaelleskaber/695-skraplanet

Contact person: Soren Skovlund | phone: 40228835 | email: soren@sorenskovlund.com

Chuck Durrett will be giving a presentation at the esteemed Grundtvigsk Forum on Monday, June 24th at 4pm/16.00 at the Vartov event center in Copenhagen.

A discussion on N.F.S. Grundtvig’s advancement of cooperation in the Danish society and the intersection with cohousing communities (bofællesskaber). Presentation by Charles Durrett, cohousing architect, author, and advocate for socially responsible & sustainable design.

Register at https://grundtvigskforum.dk/kalender/grundtvig-cohousing

Building Tomorrow's San Francisco:
From Legislation to Livability

AIA San Francisco in collaboration with the AIASF Housing Knowledge Community present the 2024 AIASF Housing+ Symposium. Join us for ongoing conversations that navigate the future of housing in San Francisco. Discover insights from frontline organizations on the City's latest legislative landscape and its implications for residential zoning and design. Delve into the efficacy of these laws in supporting vulnerable communities and explore innovative approaches leveraging land values and financial strategies to enhance housing accessibility.

Keynote

Charles R. Durrett, AIA – Principal Architect, The Cohousing Company

Architect and co-founder of The Cohousing Company, Charles Durrett, will introduce and moderate the day's program. Drawing on his 30-year career as an activist architect, Charles will frame the discussion around the value of housing and the roles those involved in housing delivery — including architects — can play in changing the future of housing design.

More info about the event and registration here.

🌱Join us at the Rebel Market Re/Source event Sunday 4/14 2-8 PM at Gold Vibe Kombuchary.

Connect & kindle your inspiration at this community gathering of local change-makers, artists, healers, musicians, families, & more!

Rebel marketplace is filled with local makers, creatives & vendors.

Chuck Durrett of The Cohousing Company will be featured on the panel discussion on sustainable housing and community at 4:30pm.

$10 advance, $15 door / Kids under 14 FREE

Purchase Tickets Here

See the Facebook Page here

Upcoming In-Person Event: Discussions on Therapy

Charles Durrett to Present on Community Therapy & a Forming Neuro-Inclusive Cohousing Community in Grass Valley, CA

Hosted By: EnGaged Services, a Nevada County California organization who focuses on building inclusive community by empowering those with special needs and their families.

Paul Platner, Independent Facilitator and Co-Founder of EnGaged Services, says there’s a huge need for a neuro-inclusive community here in Nevada County, CA. “Sure, there are expensive places where we can send our family members to live, but there aren’t a lot of places where families can live together in community.”

With discussions on art and music therapy, horse therapy, gardening/cooking therapy, and community therapy, it’s sure to be an inspiring event. During Chuck’s Presentation, he will describe his trip to Sólheimar Ecovillage, a neuro-inclusive community in Iceland, as well as his new book about it, One Life, Live It! He will also talk about how to find a site in Grass Valley, CA that will have potential to be a neuro-inclusive cohousing community for families and their loved ones with disabilities.

Email us for questions about the event and to RSVP.

3-hour LIVE Online Workshop / $125      
Friday March 15, 2024      
9:00 am (Pacific Time) / 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Description 

Organizing is the long-lost art of working with people to make things happen locally. At this juncture, where national governments are debilitated by division and divisiveness, we need to work at the neighborhood level to get things done.

In essence, the formula is about initiative – who do I have to talk to today? You wake up and figure out what is the next step to move the project forward.

This course will mainly focus on the proven methods for grassroots organizing in creating cohousing communities, though other examples will be included as well. Grassroots Community Organizers are necessary out there, whether it is getting a new cohousing community built, or a new clinic, store, or school all made locally.

Chuck Durrett has helped over five dozen cohousing communities get permitting, and he is passionate about defining a consistent strategy for doing so. While many groups struggle with how to build municipal support, Chuck will demystify the challenge by sharing case studies of his numerous successes. He will also talk about the risks and limitations of making “cohousing” a loophole developers use as another important perspective in how to work with local decision-makers. We will also be hearing from others about their successes and challenges, and will have breakouts for you to reflect on how to engage in advocacy on both a local and national level.

Learning Objectives

1. Success stories of municipal approval for cohousing

2. Risks of cohousing being misappropriated by developers

3. Next steps for building local support for cohousing

4. Easy ways for you to join the movement

More info and sign up here.

Coin Street Community Builders

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

More info and registration here.

Open Lecture & Conversation

Venue: Det Kongelige Akademi, Auditorium 6

Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53 København

More info here

Sponsored by the Danish Social and Housing Agency, Aalborg University (BUILD), Bofællesskab.dk, and Trudeslund

Sign in and coffee/cake at 2:30pm, Presentations 3pm - 5pm.

Venue: Social- og Boligstyrelsen, Holmens Kanal 22, 4. sal, 1060 København K

More info and register here (Please register by Sept. 10)

VIA the Danish Social and Housing Agency:

BUILD, Bofællesskab.dk and the Social and Housing Agency invite you to a walk-in meeting with Charles Durrett about the development of shared housing in the USA and Denmark.

Charles Durrett came to Denmark in the 80s to study housing communities. He lived in Bofællesskabet Trudeslund. It laid the seed for the development of the 'co-housing' movement in the USA and for a long series of books. Now Charles Durrett is visiting Denmark again in connection with the publication of his new book, Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Communities.  

We would like to take the opportunity to invite Charles Durrett and John Vagn from Trudeslund together with Danish researchers and practitioners to give a historical sketch of the housing movement in Denmark - and the inspiration for the USA.

We hope that the go-home meeting can partly create insight into how Denmark has inspired the US's housing communities; provide a common, historical outline and frame of reference for the development, and in addition bring together the network of actors with an interest in housing communities.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

From 9:15-10:15am, Dr. Sandi Hilal will present on “Commoning the Private.” In this presentation, Dr Hillal will draw upon previous projects (including DAAR’s Livingroom) to examine the opportunities to challenge the dichotomy between official, municipal and public forms of hosting people in common spaces versus private initiatives that have the potential to inspire new modes and spaces of commoning.

Chuck’s presentation will take place from 10:15-11:15am. In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

We’ll have time for Q&A from 11:15-Noon, with a meet and greet afterwards.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, how high-functioning neighborhoods benefit residents, and how to incorporate participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, where it has gone further in Denmark, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

Chuck is in Iceland to visit the model community, Sólheimar Eco-Village, and to learn how to work with neurodiverse folks to make it easier for them to be involved with cohousing. Architects have the unique opportunity to help solve local and global issues by using community as the secret ingredient to sustainability. He believes there are great opportunities to design cohousing in Iceland and more neurodiverse communities world-wide.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, where it has gone further in Denmark, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

Chuck is in Iceland to visit the model community, Sólheimar Eco-Village, and to learn how to work with neurodiverse folks to make it easier for them to be involved with cohousing. Architects have the unique opportunity to help solve local and global issues by using community as the secret ingredient to sustainability. He believes there are great opportunities and potential to design cohousing in Iceland.

More information here.