@conference {1971,
	title = {The power of neighborhood {\textendash} rethinking the way of life within co-housing projects in Switzerland},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {Focusing on the question of how people live and interact, co-housing projects, such as {\textquotedblleft}Kraftwerk1{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Nena1{\textquotedblright} and others attempt to withdraw imperatives of growth by establishing a new way of life in urban contexts. Some of the projects are closely connected to the ideas of an urban utopia {\textquotedblleft}bolo{\textquoteright}bolo{\textquotedblright} which was written by P.M. in the 1980ies. This ideal of a new way of life describes a concept of "the power of neighborhood{\textquotedblright} which focuses on social, political, economic and ecological aspects of nutrition, housing, employment and mobility. For some time alternative co-housing projects are now trying to bring this vision into reality. My contribution focuses on the shifting from theory to practice and asks questions like: What are the theoretical and ideal references on which the idea of {\quotedblbase}the power of neighborhood{\textquotedblright} is based? How do the projects articulate their ideal of change? And how are they trying to establish and build up an alternative way of life in their real projects?},
	author = {Sanna Frischknecht}
}
