Centring Community & Belonging by Design
Fostering Togetherness Through Comfort, Joy & Nostalgia
Building in Communal Wellness & Connectivity
Creating Spaces for More Meaningful Connection
Collaboratively designing with the community is proving transformative in a variety of project types, from simple play spaces to ambitious co-living developments – fostering empowerment, connection and collective ownership. Disused buildings and land are being reclaimed and reimagined as vibrant centres of belonging and expression with community interest at their heart – engendering civic pride, social interaction and, often, communal healing.
Collaboratively designing with the community is proving transformative in a variety of project types, from simple play spaces to ambitious co-living developments – fostering empowerment, connection and collective ownership. Disused buildings and land are being reclaimed and reimagined as vibrant centres of belonging and expression with community interest at their heart – engendering civic pride, social interaction and, often, communal healing.
Summary
Centring Community & Belonging by Design | Collaboratively designing with the community is proving transformative in a variety of project types, from simple play spaces to ambitious co-living developments – fostering empowerment, connection and collective ownership. Disused buildings and land are being reclaimed and reimagined as vibrant centres of belonging and expression with community interest at their heart – engendering civic pride, social interaction and, often, communal healing. |
Fostering Togetherness Through Comfort, Joy & Nostalgia | Architecture and design can directly enhance our openness to connect – as seen in new schemes instilling a sense of enveloping comfort that eases people together. The power of play as a social catalyst is sparking joyful connection, while nostalgic escapism is encouraging emotive interactions based on lived experiences as well as anemoia – nostalgia for a time or place one has never known. |
Building in Communal Wellness & Connectivity | Design that encourages human connection is key to improving social health, and inclusivity that makes everyone feel welcome to connect is crucial. Fostering opportunities for spontaneous conversation is also integral to healthy communication, as is engendering intergenerational discourse. Additionally, the role of nature in enabling relaxed interaction for collective wellbeing can’t be underestimated. |
Creating Spaces for More Meaningful Connection | Shallow digital content overload and consumerist burnout, among other factors, are contributing to the rising appetite for deeper intellectual and spiritual nourishment, especially among younger generations. This is increasing the need for thoughtful spaces that foster more meaningful community aspirations, enabling people to come together to contemplate, talk, read or simply coexist in quietude. |
Spaces: Cultivating Connection - Architecture & Design


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