Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Designing for the Good Old Days to come: Boboyaka Cooperative Housing in Bordeaux (France)

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As people age, the once comforting home might become a burden or even a threat to living well and in good health. Many adapted housing options target specific issues - like security, services, care - but few put the elderly at the heart of their management. Our communication focuses on the recently labelled Boboyaka senior cooperative housing in Bordeaux. Initiated by friends who wanted to “age happy together”, the twenty co-opted members want to master their future by creating their habitat. Combining senior and student flats, shared facilities and spaces, a shop, a kindergarten and a resource centre on ageing, the programme expresses the choice to remain an active part of society as a right and as a mean to defer disengagement. The ambition is to embody both a spiritual and political legacy through its values (solidarity, accessibility, nonspeculation), promoting an alternative housing model for and by the elderly. However, prioritizing the collective over the individual may prove to be a risky choice. It requires leaving a long-time home with its souvenirs, investing savings and juggling with the community to embrace ideals that may take you into the unknown… including a 50 sq. meter flat. Retirement could as well represent an opportunity to experiment a “last adventure”, once freed from social injunctions. Through biographical narratives and interviews led as part of our ongoing qualitative research, We will analyze the cooperators’ aspirations, motivations and projections in the “home” they design for “good old days that are yet to come”.

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hal-05359977 , version 1 (12-11-2025)

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Fanny Gerbeaud, Pascal Machado. Designing for the Good Old Days to come: Boboyaka Cooperative Housing in Bordeaux (France). ENHR International Conference / Affordable housing in greening cities, ENHR - European Network of Housing Research / Lab’urba-Université Gustave Eiffel-Université Paris-Est Créteil, Jun 2025, Paris, France. pp.81. ⟨hal-05359977⟩
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