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

该提案旨在探索影响英国微型住宅日益流行的因素，其具体目的是询问它们在英国战略住房政策实施中使用的潜力。该项目将借鉴住房替代方法领域的关键思想家的工作，如Colin Ward，以及更当代的学者，如Michaela Benson。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非常宝贵的。我还将纳入马克思主义对这些住房政策所处和制定的经济基础的批评。阿尔都塞和葛兰西，以及诺姆·乔姆斯基的著作对我的观点的发展都很重要。Paul Chatterton和其他参与创建和运营低影响生活负担社区（LILAC）的人所树立的榜样，将成为对环境和社会负责的原则的一个很好的例子，可以与微型住房进行比较。我提出的博士研究旨在解决四个关键问题：RQ1：英国的Tiny Housers生活在哪里，为什么他们成为Tiny Housers，他们是如何做到的，以及平均微型房屋的成本是多少？RQ2：微型房屋在哪些方面变得越来越受欢迎，推动这一趋势的主要因素是什么？RQ3：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）的问题如何影响微型住房的趋势？RQ4：为了让Tiny House在英国更容易建造，政策应该如何改变/执行？我将使用混合方法来收集最相关的数据来回答上面概述的研究问题。如果有的话，将收集微型房屋建造者的人口统计信息的二次数据。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，如果它属于自建的保护伞。此外，将使用半结构化访谈收集主要数据，以收集有关建筑过程定性方面的信息，例如导致举证者建造的原因，他们认为微型住房代表的价值等等。我将对以下类别的个人进行半结构化访谈；潜在的微型房屋建造者，已经住在微型房屋中的人，微型房屋的建造者/承包商，以及与住房政策相关的政府官员。

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.