Home and Identity Conference, Rome 14-15 November 2012
How is the home associated with personal and social identity in both the public and private spheres?
The Universities of "Roma Tre" in Italy and "Waikato" in New Zealand in collaboration with Home Renaissance Foundation & Fondazione
OIKIA will be presenting a conference entitled Home and Identity: The Private-Public Nexus at Roma Tre University.
The Call for Papers is open and abstracts are due in April.
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Launching HRF as a think tank
At the opening of the Sustainable Living: Professional Approaches to Housework conference
Chairman Bryan Sanderson CBE launched Home Renaissance Foundation as a think tank. After
much deliberation, the Directors decided that as an organisation that promotes international and
interdisciplinary research on the work of the home, being identified as a think tank will give the
Foundation greater freedom to pursue its mission and act as a catalyst for change.... | |
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E-book: From House to Home
From House to Home. The book examines how anthropological aspects, the use
of management skills, and, of course, architecture and design all
contribute to transforming a house into a home. Its task is to explore the
difference between a house and a home: by what extraordinary process does a
building, a house, become a home? | |
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New Working Papers from Sustainable Living
The influence of the home in social Dynamics. How is the home, and specifically the work at home, a crucial factor in the way society works and develops? While the majority of the western world would agree with this idea, it seems that it is not being reflected in our public policies... | |
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Household Economics
The paper discusses the value of the work of the home from a policy perspective rather than a business perspective or with a particular focus on the labour market. Sustainability needs to be considered through the natural, market and core economies... | |
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