Watch: Life Between Apartments & what it means for resilience
Life Between Apartments is an output from Merrick Morley’s PhD. It’s a much watch for anyone interested in community building, resilience and living well in apartment buildings.
For his PhD, Merrick investigated four new innovative apartment projects in Melbourne, that have been described as 'resilient communities' to understand if the rhetoric matches the lived realities.
His main findings were:
high community resilience exists in the four buildings ✔️
suitable pre-occupancy processes foster community resilience ✔️
post-occupancy processes foster AND undermine community resilience 🤔
shared spaces foster AND undermine community resilience 🤔
there are ongoing design, management, and lifestyle vulnerabilities that may undermine the high community resilience across the four buildings in the futureif we want more 'life between apartments' and community resilience, then further innovation, support, experimentation AND project feedback is needed from the many actors in the housing system to show what works, what doesn't, and how we can shift apartment living to suit more people 💭 🚀🤝🌱
Watch his full, 1 hour presentation below.
