![]() I am a woman of faith but not any religious dogma. Modern development and urbanisation have the tendency to draw us apart from each other, but we have the means to bring ourselves together by joining like this, having dinner together, solving our problems together, and facing the challenge of life together. ![]() And also, I believe that the world is complicated and we have many challenges but we when live like this we remain strong strong to face all kinds of challenges in the world such as climate change and any kind of social catastrophes. “I believe that spending an evening like this together, having dinner, telling stories, and sharing their lives and experiences is what I believe our brains are wired for because it is so deeply, deeply ingrained. ![]() Photo: Steve Watson, Director, Middlemarch CLH CIC Salla Korpela: Speech to collaborative housing delegates, Malta House, Helsinki. Salla stood on a chair and gave this unscripted speech: It’s wisdom about human nature that drives Salla and Susanne’s work, as we found after the wonderful dinner laid on for about 100 of us after the last visit. Literally translated, Sagarak Oy means Wise Women Building Ltd. Salla is joint owner, with Susanne Vatanen, of Sagarak Oy, a technical support service for those wanting to live in cohousing projects. The visits were led by the extraordinary Salla Korpela. These visits will probably stay with us the longest of the many memories of Finland. But before and after the collaborative housing day, visits had been arranged to three community-led housing projects in the city. One of the four days of the festival was dedicated to Collaborative Housing – Community Led Housing, as we know it – and we were presenting on our experience of partnerships between CLTs and RPs in a session with colleagues from Italy, Spain, Belgium and Ireland. In June 2022, we attended the European Social Housing Festival in Helsinki. For more about Finland’s unusual culture and how it came about, Danny Dorling’s Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World’s Happiest Country is a must read. ![]() Finland is an unusual place where people consistently consider themselves to be the happiest in the world, where the ruling coalition is led by a group of five women, four of whom are under 40, and where public spending as a % of GDP is among the highest in Europe. ![]()
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