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Title [sv]
Nordiska nätverket för forskning om äldres boende
Title [en]
Nordic network for research on old people´s housing
Abstract [sv]
Syftet med nätverket är att samla aktiva samhällsvetenskapliga forskare i Norden som forskar om äldres boende för att skapa en plattform för nordiskt samarbete. Nätverket har säte på NISAL, Nationella institutet för forskning om äldre och åldrande, Linköpings universitet. Nätverket har 45 medlemmar, forskare på olika akademiska nivåer från samtliga nordiska länder. Nätverket startades 2008 och stöttades av Forte 2009-2013 och 2014. I fokus för nätverkets forskning står alla typer av bostäder för äldre, det ordinära boendet, bostäder som riktar sig enbart till äldre samt det särskilda boendet. Forskningen som medlemmarna bedriver gäller alltså hela åldersspannet av äldre människor, omsorgsfrågor, bostadsval, kulturella och sociala aspekter samt hur boendet påverkar och integreras i välfärdssystemen. Forskningsintressena kan sammanfattas i fyra teman: 1 Fysisk miljö/arkitektur, vardagsteknologi, 2 Boendeformer och lokal förankring, 3 Boendepreferenser, 4 Boendet och välfärden.Samarbetet i nätverket rör utbyte av information om pågående forskning, gemensam forskning, forskarutbyte, doktorandkurser samt gemensamma publikationer. Kärnan i Nätverkets aktiviteter är nätverksträffarna och ett möte kommer genomföras varje år på olika platser i Norden. Dessa är i första hand ett forum för medlemmar att presentera sina pågående forskningsprojekt, men är också arbetsmöten runt aktiviteter som germensamt skrivande och forskningsansökningar. Nätverket planerar att genomföra tvärnordisk forskning inom relevanta områden för att belysa likheter och olikheter i de nordiska länderna. Samnordiska doktorandkurser kommer att arrangeras. Nätverket har också ordnat symposier vid olika internationella och nordiska konferenser konferenser för medlemmar men också utomstående forskare. Denna symposieverksamhet kommer att fortsätta.
Abstract [en]
The aim of the network is to gather active social science researchers in Scandinavia researching housing for older people, in order to create a platform for Nordic cooperation. The network is based at NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life, Linköping University. It has 45 members, who are researchers at various academic levels in the different Nordic countries. The network was launched in 2008 and supported by Forte twice, from 2009 to 2013-2014. The focus of its research is all types of homes for older people, ordinary housing, housing that caters exclusively for older people and assisted living. The research covers the whole age range of older people, care issues, housing options, cultural and social aspects, and how housing is integrated into the welfare system. The research interests fall within four main themes: 1) Physical environment/architecture and everyday technology, 2) types of residences and local community, 3) accommodation preferences and 4) accommodation and welfare.Cooperation in the network involves exchanges of information on current research, joint research, exchange of researchers, postgraduate courses and joint publications. Network meetings form the core of the network´s activities and a meeting is held every year in different locations in the Nordic region. These are primarily a forum for members to present their current research, but also include work on activities such as writing joint research applications. The network plans to implement cross-Nordic research in relevant areas to illustrate the similarities and differences in the Nordic countries and to arrange joint Nordic postgraduate courses. The network also organises an ongoing programme of symposia on various issues at international and Nordic level for its members and external researchers.
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Nord, C. & Högström, E. (Eds.). (2017). Caring Architecture: Institutions and Relational Practices. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Caring Architecture: Institutions and Relational Practices
2017 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book sets out to illuminate how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions. It contains a number of essays by authors from disciplines such as human geography, architecture, planning, design, social work and education. The essays discuss different examples from institutions in which care is carried out; assisted living facilities, residential care for children, psychiatric care facilities and hospitals. By adopting a non-representational perspective, emergent practices render visible capacities of being flexible and mouldable, in which institutional architecture is defied, contested and transformed. New situations appear which transgress physical space in partnership with those who populate it, whether humans or non-humans. This book reveals the relational and transformative conditions of care architecture and the way in which institutions transform (or not) into Caring Architecture.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Keywords
architecture, care, non-representational theory
National Category
Architectural Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-15199 (URN)978-1-4438-9896-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-09-24 Created: 2017-09-24 Last updated: 2025-09-30Bibliographically approved
Högström, E. & Nord, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Nord, Catharina & Högström, Ebba (Ed.), Caring architecture.: Institutions and relational practices. . Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction
2017 (English)In: Caring architecture.: Institutions and relational practices.  / [ed] Nord, Catharina & Högström, Ebba, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Keywords
non-representational theory, architecture, care practices, performativity
National Category
Architecture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-19457 (URN)978-1-4438-9896-6 (ISBN)1-4438-9896-1 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2008-1378
Note

Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book illuminates how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions. It contains a number of essays by authors from disciplines such as human geography, architecture, planning, design, social work and education. The contributions discuss different examples from institutions in which care is carried out, such as assisted living facilities, residential care for children, psychiatric care facilities, hospitals, and prisons. By adopting a non-representational perspective, emergent practices render visible capacities of being flexible and mouldable, in which institutional architecture is defied, contested and transformed. New situations appear which transgress physical space in partnership with those who populate it, whether humans or non-humans. This book reveals the relational and transformative conditions of care architecture and the ways in which institutions transform (or not) into caring architecture.

Available from: 2020-05-17 Created: 2020-05-17 Last updated: 2025-09-30Bibliographically approved
Nord, C. (2017). Stratum architecture: an iterated architectural assemblage of care for the very aged. In: Nord, Catharina & Högström, Ebba (Ed.), Caring architecture: institutions and relational practices (pp. 67-83). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Stratum architecture: an iterated architectural assemblage of care for the very aged
2017 (English)In: Caring architecture: institutions and relational practices / [ed] Nord, Catharina & Högström, Ebba, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, p. 67-83Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Keywords
architecture, care, elderly, assisted living
National Category
Architecture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-19502 (URN)9781443898966 (ISBN)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2020-05-27 Created: 2020-05-27 Last updated: 2025-09-30Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorNord, Catharina
Coordinating organisation
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Funder
Period
2016-01-01 － 2018-12-31
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1993Project, id: 2015-01480_Forte

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