Basic ideas underlying Housing Imagination(s)

Part 1

Basic ideas of Housing Imaginations (HI 1.0) are as follows:

1. It endorses a set of ideas to examine the subjects of housing studies and housing policy, including topics within these subjects, e.g., homelessness, home ownership and social housing.
2. Its chief focus is to study housing-related images, perspectives, and thinking that are often shared by a group of people.
3. The ingredient ideas include: housing imaginations, artifacts (e.g., photos, painting, newspaper articles, songs, etc.), social discourse, space, place and home.
4. Its preferred research methods are case study research and discourse analysis. They are qualitative research in essence.
5. Its underlying research philosophy is pluralist, comprising the objective, subjective and critical philosophical stances.
6. It treasures research and investigation with both academic and practical values.


Built on Housing Imaginations with critical systems thinking, Housing Imagination (HI 2.0) adopts the following additional ideas in addition to that of HI 1.0:

1. It embraces critical systems thinking (CST).
2. It employs HI methods and conceptual frameworks grounded on CST.
3. Its preferred research method is the Multi-perspective, Systems-based Research.


Part 2

e-resources on HI 

1. Facebook page on HI
2. e-book on HI

Part 3

Examples of HI artifact, in the Hong Kong context

1. Photos: photo 1; photo 2.

2. Videos: video 1; video 2.

3. News articles: article 1; article 2.