Survival through design: An examination of tiny housing as a unique and emerging sector within self-build projects

该提案旨在探讨是什么因素影响了英国微型房屋建筑的日益普及，其具体目的是询问其在英国战略住房政策实施中的潜力。该项目将借鉴住房替代方法领域的主要思想家的工作，如科林·沃德，以及更当代的学者，如米凯拉·本森。这两位作家都对英国的住房政策提出了批评，这对我自己的工作将是无价的。我亦会引用马克思主义对这些房屋政策所处及制订的经济基础的批评。阿尔都塞和葛兰西，以及诺姆·乔姆斯基的著作，对我的思想的发展都很重要。保罗·查特顿和其他参与创建和运营低影响生活负担得起的社区（LILAC）的人所树立的榜样将成为一个很好的例子，说明微型住房可以与之进行比较的环境和社会责任原则。我提出的博士研究旨在解决四个关键问题：RQ 1：在英国，小房子住在哪里，为什么他们会成为小房子，他们是如何做到的，以及平均小房子的价格是多少？RQ 2：小房子在哪些方面越来越受欢迎，推动这一趋势的主要因素是什么？第三个问题：环境正义、社会正义和经济原则（如以债务为标准的住房政策）如何影响微型住房的趋势？RQ 4：如何改变/实施政策，使英国的微型房屋建造更容易？我将使用混合方法，以收集最相关的数据来回答上述研究问题。如有关于小型房屋建造者人口资料的次级数据，将予以收集。这将包括年龄、性别、关系状况、种族和收入等类别。我可能会更广泛地依赖于收集到的关于自建项目的数据，因为微型住房是一个利基和新兴的类别，如果它属于自建项目的话。除此之外，我们还将通过半结构化访谈收集有关建造过程的定性方面的信息，例如导致受访者建造的原因，他们认为小型住房代表的价值等。我将对以下类别的个人进行半结构化访谈：潜在的小型房屋建造者、已经住在小型房屋的人、小型房屋的建造者/承包商以及与住房政策有关的政府官员。

This proposal seeks to explore what factors are influencing the increasing popularity of tiny house builds within the UK, with the specific purpose of interrogating their potential to be used in strategic housing policy implementation in Britain. The project will draw on the work of key thinkers in the field of alternative approaches to housing, such as Colin Ward, as well as more contemporary academics such as Michaela Benson. These writers both offer critiques of housing policy in Britain which will be invaluable for my own work. I will also incorporate Marxist critiques of the economic base in which these housing policies are located and formulated. Althusser and Gramsci, as well as work by Noam Chomsky will be important for the development of my ideas. The example set by Paul Chatterton and others involved in the creation and running of the Low Impact Living Affordable Community (LILAC) will serve as an excellent example of the kind of environmentally and socially responsible principles against which tiny housing can be compared. My proposed doctoral research aims to address four key questions:RQ1: Where do Tiny Housers' live in the UK, why do they become tiny housers', how do they do it, and how much does the average tiny house cost?RQ2: In what ways are tiny houses becoming more popular, and what are the main factors driving this?RQ3: How do issues of environmental justice, social justice, and economic principles such as a debt-as-standard policy towards housing affect trends within tiny housing?RQ4: How could policy change/implementation take place to make Tiny House builds easier in the UK?I will use a mixed methods approach in order to gather the most relevant data to answer the research questions as outlined above. Secondary data on demographic information of tiny house builders will be gathered, if available. This will include categories such as age, gender, relationship status, ethnicity, and income. It is possible that I will be relying on data collected about self-build projects more generally, since tiny housing is a niche and emerging category if its own under the self-build umbrella. Further to this, primary data will be collected using semi-structured interviews to gather information on qualitative aspects of the building process, such as the reasoning that led informants to build, what values they feel tiny housing represents and so on. I will conduct semi-structured interviews with individuals from the following categories; potential tiny house builders, people who already live in tiny houses, builders/contractors of tiny houses, and government officials related to housing policy.