Browsing by Author "Ajosenpää, Kirsi-Marja"

The purpose of the study was to examine the opinions of the students of home economics in Helsinki University about future homes and housing. The theoretical framework of the study is based on future research. The base for the research and the analysis of the results were Sitra`s, the Finnish Innovation Fund, 2016 megatrends and the exhibition of Britain “home economics” in Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. The study searches answers to following questions: What kind of technology can be found in future homes? How will be different rooms and their transformability taken into account? What kind of co-ownership can be found in future homes? The students of home economics in Helsinki University had written an essay about “Future home 2030” in their course of home economics research. There were altogether thirty essays that were analysed of by the method of content analysis. The results were classified based on technology, transformability of room and co-ownership. The results proof that technology has huge significance in the future homes. Technology was utilised for example by robots in cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry and opening doors. Houses will be smaller in the future and that is why movable walls and sliding doors are used in the future homes. In this research co-ownership means owning, borrowing or renting household appliances or other things among inhabitants. As a conclusion, future homes will be small but based on needs of inhabitants and homes are easily transformable. Technology as well utilised in all functions in future homes. There is no need for big storage room because people own and share things together.