'Home not Housing' Engaging with Wellbeing Outcomes : Final Report

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Robertson, Douglas and Peel, Deborah and Searle, Beverley and Kroll, Thilo and Mitchell, James and Brotchie, Rosemary and Pattoni, Lisa and Watson, Ian and Higgins, Martin (2014) 'Home not Housing' Engaging with Wellbeing Outcomes : Final Report. Scottish Universities Insight Institute.

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Abstract

This project foregrounds individual understandings of home, neighbourhood and wellbeing. It does so in order to explore the many and varied ways individuals understand how their home, as well as the neighbourhood in which the home is located, contributes to their personal appreciation of wellbeing. To achieve this end an innovative ‘knowledge mobilisation’ approach was pursued which gave equal voice to all participants, through valuing the ideas and understandings they offered. Through utilising a series of carefully planned participatory exercises individuals were encouraged to share, discuss and debate these personal understandings, drawing from their knowledge, specialist skills, strengths and individual capacity. While most participants were drawn from professional backgrounds (embracing housing, planning, social work, public health, social care as well as design), it was their personal understandings of home, neighbourhood and wellbeing that were critical to this exercise. So those not possessing such professional baggage often found this to be to their advantage, given the levelling demanded through focusing primarily upon the personal. That said, trying to separate the professional from the personal often proved a challenging endeavour.

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