Communities

Meet The Urban Technicalist, a Neo-Urbanite whose wardrobe centres on function, adaptability and material performance, forming an everyday uniform engineered for city life.

Meet the Urban Rewilder, a Neo-Urbanite reclaiming dense city life through walkable neighbourhoods, hybrid third spaces and new forms of citizen-led placemaking.

Meet the Neo-Urbanites, the citizens renegotiating urban life on their own terms – reclaiming space as a source of wellbeing, forging community ties and expressing identity through the rhythms of life within a metropolis.

Published alongside The Future Laboratory’s Tech-Resisters Communities report, this Future:Poll survey of nationally representative audiences across the UK, the US and Australia maps how everyday technology resistance is moving from niche behaviour to mainstream reality.

Meet the citizens armed with knowledge of addictive design and extraction mechanics, they are rejecting algorithms, embracing analogue alternatives and treating friction as protection.