Shared Living in the Cities of Tomorrow

Tuesday, June 28th, 2022

CINIBA, Bankowa 11a, 40-007 Katowice

12:15 - 13:45 CEST

Shared Living in the Cities of Tomorrow

Driving Innovation, Impact & Change.

About Event

Shared Living in the Cities of Tomorrow: Driving Innovation, Impact & Change is an industry event that took place during the World Urban Forum (WUF 11), which was organised by UN Habitat, City of Katowice & Polish Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy from June 26th to 30th in Katowice, Poland.

The event explored how we can drive innovation, impact and change in cities of tomorrow with shared living through stimulating conversations, collaboration and insights into the future of sustainable and community-centred urbanisation.

As experts in the specialist residential real estate sector – specifically in shared living – we at Coliving Ventures are actively supporting the sustainable acceleration, growth and consolidation of the coliving industry, and how we work with our partners to drive this evolution and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.

For this event we have partnered up with GZM - Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia and Dąbrowa Basin (Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia) and CINIBA - Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library (Centrum Informacji Naukowej i Biblioteka Akademicka) to bring shared living concepts to wider audiences of WUF11.

For Whom?

As specialist real estate assets merge and blend, the worlds of residential, hospitality, office and commercial real estate are colliding. This means new hybridised products are coming to market and a multi-stakeholder approach to collaboration and consolidation is needed.

This event was organised for specialist real estate developers, operators, investors, service providers and public officials looking to understand these innovative asset classes.
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We were joined by high-level decision-makers, urban planners, city-makers, public stakeholders, entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, thought-leaders and other professionals who are passionate about shared living and innovative and sustainable models of urbanisation.

By participating in this industry event, attendees had a chance to dive deeper into how shared living is transforming the future of our cities and communities.

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Networking with
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Speakers

Panels

Keynote

Programme

Keynote: 2022 Shared Living Best Practices & Insights

The Coliving Ventures team introduced our portfolio companies and shared insights and learnings from both Coliving Insights and Coliving Awards. We shared best practices from 10 Coliving Insights publications and two Coliving Awards ceremonies. Moreover, we presented an overview of the current market status, showcased the most innovative shared living businesses and initiatives and shared best practices in regards to a wide range of shared living topics (e.g. spatial design, architecture, community experience, branding, marketing and more). This keynote aimed to help set the stage for the rest of our panel discussions.

Speakers

Matt Lesniak

Co-Founder at Conscious Coliving

Bart Sasim

Co-Founder at Coliving Ventures

Aitana de Jong

Co-Founder at Coliving Ventures

Panel 1: How Shared Living Models are Shaping Innovation in Real Estate

Multifamily, Build to Rent (BTR), Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA), senior living, nomad coliving, hybrid hospitality, cohousing … all of these specialist residential real estate models stem from the same family of shared living. This panel explored how these typologies differ and how the worlds of these specialist asset classes are merging to shape innovation within real estate. Our panellists consisted of industry partners that come from different real estate industries including BTR, PBSA and coliving. They shared their specific industry knowledge about the innovations and challenges in each of their fields.

Moderators & Speakers

Moderator

Bart Sasim

Co-Founder at Coliving Ventures

speaker

Joanna Wojnarowska

Deputy Global Head of Real Estate at DWF

speaker

Andrei Martin

Partner at PLP Architecture

speaker

Sylwia Ziemacka

Head of Membership and Partners Network at SHHA

Panel 2: How Post-pandemic Lifestyles are Driving Change within Real Estate

Since the pandemic hit, real estate and work experts have been exploring how exactly the future of work is heading, many reporting that the future of work will be (or already is) hybrid. With employees demanding that the future of their work styles become increasingly flexible and hybrid, employers and their office spaces – and where they allow their employees to work – need to adapt accordingly. This panel explored the newest consumer trends, desires and demands that are driving change within real estate.

Moderator & Speakers

moderator

Aitana de Jong

Co-Founder at Coliving Ventures

speaker

Michał Lorbiecki

Urbanist and economist

speaker

Petr Boruta

Head of marketing at Spaceflow

speaker

Marcin Wojciech Żebrowski

Graduate of Urban Planning

speaker

Anastasia Sukhoroslova

CEO and Co-Founder of All Things Urban

speaker

Jerzy Lipiński

Member of Advisory Board in Human Touch Group

Panel 3: Harnessing the Power of Impact & Sustainability with Shared Living

The shared living sector has a big potential to contribute positively to the real estate sector and our planet as an environmentally and socially sustainable housing model. With close relationships to their tenants, shared living developers and operators have the opportunity and the responsibility to enhance the wellbeing of their residents and contribute positively to local economies and neighbourhoods. This panel explored how shared living businesses that are thinking deeply about the different stakeholders within their ecosystems, deliver a positive social, economic and environmental impact for these individuals, their communities and wider neighbourhoods and cities.

Moderator & Speakers

Moderator

Matt Lesniak

Co-Founder at Conscious Coliving

speaker

Wojciech Kolęda

Co-founder of Less is core

speaker

Elżbieta Rotblum

Sustainable Development Expert for the Skanska

speaker

Alicia Regodón

Sustainable Housing Expert at UN-Habitat

Moderator

Penny Clark

Co-Founder at Conscious Coliving

Networking Session

After the panel discussions, all guests were welcomed to attend our networking session, where we connected and concluded the day over some refreshing drinks. This was a great chance for attending companies to engage with knowledgeable professionals and experts within the shared living industry, and enhance visibility of their brand in the field.

Panel Sponsors

Panel 1 Sponsor

Panel 2 Sponsor

Partners

Founding Partner

Strategic Partner

Media Partner

Event Partner

WUF 11 Partner

Tech Partner

Venue Partner

Industry Partner

Innovation, Impact & Change

Shared Living in the Cities of Tomorrow’ event gathered industry enthousiasts and front runners that are curious and interested in challenging the status quo and looking for more and better ways of living. During three panels we explored innovation, impact and change and hosted 14 international speakers. Curious what they have to say on how the future of living could look like? Check the exclusive interviews in our event video.

Event Powered by Spatial Experience

Spatial Experience is an innovation hub working at the intersection of design, technology, marketing and research to shape the future of living. Through their venture builder arm, SPX Studio, they bring together thought leaders and diverse specialists to create experience-driven products and services, such as Coliving Ventures and Digital Estate. As the founding partner of Coliving Ventures, Spatial Experience is proud to sponsor “Shared Living in the Cities of Tomorrow”, aiming to encourage impactful growth and promote innovative and sustainable approaches to business development.

As a visionary company that strives to continuously innovate and drive the sector forward, Spatial Experience considers this event to be one of the ways to enable human connections and collaboration that help businesses thrive and find opportunity areas by exchanging thoughts, know-how and specific R&D insights.

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Publication

Shared Living in the Cities of Tomorrow was an industry event hosted in Katowice, Poland during the eleventh edition of the UN Habitat’s World Urban Forum (WUF11). The event explored how we can drive innovation, impact and change in cities of tomorrow with shared living through stimulating conversations, collaboration and insights into the future of sustainable and community-centred urbanisation. This post-event publication is a special edition of Coliving Insights in collaboration with Coliving Ventures that takes us through some of the insights and best practices shared by our industry experts, moderators and panellists.

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Other Events at WUF 11

On June 30th, Coliving Ventures also hosted a networking session during the official programme of WUF11. This event explored sustainable forms of urban living and housing, with a specific focus on shared living models including cohousing, intentional communities, regenerative villages, coliving, build to rent, purpose built student accommodation, senior living and other communal living typologies.

The networking event was facilitated using a ‘World Café’ format, which is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today’s world.
We structured the networking session in a way that we could share our internal R&D as well as facilitate smaller thematic group discussions where specialists could dive deeper into categories such as sustainability, impact, ESG, social value, architecture, technology, community, branding, marketing and more.

Moreover, on June 29th Coliving Awards 2022 took place at Kino Kosmos.