Uferwerk partnership, or implementation of social utopia

Жилищное товарищество Uferwerk, или Реализация социальной утопии

Lepetyukhina, Yana (Лепетюхина, Яна) () and Neroda, Maxim (Нерода, Максим) ()
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Lepetyukhina, Yana (Лепетюхина, Яна): Rheinisch- Westfälische Technische Hochschule
Neroda, Maxim (Нерода, Максим): Electric Workshop at the Uferwerk Partnership

Russian Peasant Studies, 2020, vol. 5, 141-150

Abstract: The article considers the history and everyday practices of the German housing coop- erative partnership Uferwerk located in the countryside not far from Berlin. On the ex- ample of the housing cooperative Uferwerk, the authors analyze the social structure, financial and legal features of the contemporary housing partnership that reconstructs traditional relations and at the same time creates new humanistic relations of the com- munity. This partnership transformed and rebuilt the former industrial territory of the metallurgical manufactory into an environmentally attractive space for the community of ninety adults and sixty children of various generations. The article focuses on the successful intergenerational interaction of the members of this housing partnership; considers its search for optimal legal and organizational-financial forms. The authors emphasize that all members of this unique project did not have any special data or skills for creating a cooperative, arranging a joint life, reconstructing real estate or developing a set of rules for the partnership. Thus, the new community developed due to the internal mutual learning based on the active participation of its members in management and decision-making, work and leisure, and on their desire to achieve the old utopian goals of cooperative solidarity in the new social realities of the 21st century.

Keywords: community; family; partnership; cooperative; suburbanization; real estate; ecology; generations; utopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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