The Future Laboratory

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Singapore launches heavily oversubscribed co-living scheme for under-35s

More than 500 young Singaporeans applied for a new government-backed co-living initiative within 11 days of its launch, making the scheme five times oversubscribed.

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Diverging Demographics

Stat: Barbie and Rightmove reveal rise of ‘platonic co-buying’ among young women

Barbie and Rightmove have partnered to explore how young women are redefining homeownership, with new research revealing growing interest in buying homes with friends.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Communal Living Market

Once a fringe experiment, communal living is entering the mainstream. From multigenerational households to co-buying with friends, people are redefining independence in a collective effort to design – and afford – the homes they want.

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Europe

Communal thinking

Amsterdam – Designer Irene Pereyra has created a documentary and survey that examines communal living.

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Design

Home and away

Frankfurt – Libertine Lindenberg is a new hotel concept aimed at long-term guests who crave communal living experiences.

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Marketing & Branding

East coast radicals

UK – Radical Essex is to present a series of exhibitions and events celebrating the county’s contribution to modernism.

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Travel & Hospitality

Preview: The New Commune

Global – As we reconsider the way we work, co-working start-ups are asking consumers to rethink the way we live too.

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North America

Homestead 3.0

Family sizes are changing, and our homes are adapting to accommodate new social and environmental behaviours.UK households are becoming more integrated, connected and multifunctional. By 2020, blended technology will become the norm. Communal spaces – whether within the home or the wider community –will be more common. And, with 12m of us…

Browsing Communal living

Singapore launches heavily oversubscribed co-living scheme for under-35s