Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing
Direct involvement of the user in the assembling process of his/her own products or even entire house is a reality among low-income populations in developing countries. Nevertheless, there are a limited number of products that have actually been designed from a do-it-yourself (DIY) perspective, whi...
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| author | Santos, Aguinaldo Dos Rocha, Cecilia G. da Lepre, Priscilla |
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| description | Direct involvement of the user in the assembling process of his/her own products or even entire house is a reality among low-income populations in
developing countries. Nevertheless, there are a limited number of products that have actually been designed from a do-it-yourself (DIY) perspective, which
results in several problems, such as poor user safety while the product is being assembled or inadequate results from an improvised assembling. Hence, the
main goal of this paper is to analyse barriers to and opportunities for developing DIY products for low-income housing in developing countries. The research
method utilises a case study of a DIY product consisting of a hybrid solution that acted as both a partition wall and a wardrobe. The identified opportunities
included more systematic use of existing craft competencies among low-income families and the possibility of cost reduction through DIY concepts. Major
barriers included the perception of the DIY product as inferior and the difficulty of communicating the DIY assembly process to users who quite often are
illiterate. |
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| spelling | usm-421882018-09-28T08:10:10Z http://eprints.usm.my/42188/ Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing Santos, Aguinaldo Dos Rocha, Cecilia G. da Lepre, Priscilla TH1-9745 Building construction Direct involvement of the user in the assembling process of his/her own products or even entire house is a reality among low-income populations in developing countries. Nevertheless, there are a limited number of products that have actually been designed from a do-it-yourself (DIY) perspective, which results in several problems, such as poor user safety while the product is being assembled or inadequate results from an improvised assembling. Hence, the main goal of this paper is to analyse barriers to and opportunities for developing DIY products for low-income housing in developing countries. The research method utilises a case study of a DIY product consisting of a hybrid solution that acted as both a partition wall and a wardrobe. The identified opportunities included more systematic use of existing craft competencies among low-income families and the possibility of cost reduction through DIY concepts. Major barriers included the perception of the DIY product as inferior and the difficulty of communicating the DIY assembly process to users who quite often are illiterate. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/42188/1/JCDC_Vol_15%281%29_ART_2_%2829-43%29_26.11.pdf Santos, Aguinaldo Dos and Rocha, Cecilia G. da and Lepre, Priscilla (2010) Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries , 15 (1). pp. 29-43. ISSN 1823-6499 http://web.usm.my/jcdc/vol15_1_2010/JCDC%20Vol%2015(1)%20ART%202%20(29-43)_26.11.pdf |
| spellingShingle | TH1-9745 Building construction Santos, Aguinaldo Dos Rocha, Cecilia G. da Lepre, Priscilla Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing |
| title | Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing |
| title_full | Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing |
| title_fullStr | Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing |
| title_short | Barriers And Opportunities In Developing ‘do-it-yourself’ Products For Low-income Housing |
| title_sort | barriers and opportunities in developing ‘do-it-yourself’ products for low-income housing |
| topic | TH1-9745 Building construction |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/42188/ http://eprints.usm.my/42188/ http://eprints.usm.my/42188/1/JCDC_Vol_15%281%29_ART_2_%2829-43%29_26.11.pdf |