Constructing community? A collaborative housing development process meeting credit and concrete

This chapter analyses the relationship between the architectural design and a changing constellation of actors in an ongoing innovative collaborative housing development process in a medium sized Danish city. The building cooperative is meeting many challenges from a construction process set up for certain types of professional actors, and a different client organization must be developed in order to get the project financed. A pragmatist approach is adopted in order to deploy for analysis some of the complex infrastructures guiding the process of translating the architectural and communal vision into a building project. The aim is to start unlocking some of the ‘black boxes’ of legal-financial structures strongly influencing housing and building projects, for architectural anthropology to be able to better engage with the communities of diverse actors and infrastructures co-creating our built cities today.