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Intentional communities like urban, sustainability oriented cohousing projects are considered
as important niches of a socio-ecological transformation. The transformative potentiality is
especially presumed in socio-ecological innovations of everyday practices like cooking, eat-
ing, doing the laundry, mobility etc. In this paper, findings from a multi-method investigation
about a Viennese cohousing project are discussed on the background of the sociological
concept of the conduct of everyday life regarding the ambivalences of the conduct of every-
day life of its inhabitants under the new socio-material conditions. Everyday practices are
dominated by restrictions of dominant societal practices like gainful employment and related
time pressure, but in the inhabitants’ small adaptations of their conduct of life degrees of
freedom are revealed. Socially innovative projects dealing with a sustainability oriented reor-
ganization of socio-material housing conditions demonstrate that a more sustainable conduct
of everyday life is, within limits, possible.
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