The Common Agenda for Shared Living

Friday, November 19th, 2021

The Common Agenda for Shared Living

Partnerships, collaboration, community and consolidation in the shared living sectors.

About Event

At Coliving Ventures we ensure that impact, sustainability, experience, community and wellbeing are at the core of the common agenda for shared living. Therefore we organised an in-person networking event that brought shared living professionals around that common agenda.

The goal of the event was to collaborate to foster economically, socially and environmentally sustainable shared living ventures that are both impact-driven and financially viable.

The themes were based on three pillars: Impact & Sustainability, User & Community Experience, Health & Wellbeing. With these principals in mind, we are endorsing multi-stakeholder ecosystems of shared living professionals and businesses. The panel discussions featured 3-5 speakers and were led by one moderator.

Programme

Panel 1: Impact & Sustainability in Shared Living

In regards to real estate and shared living, impact and sustainability can be considered as the environmental, social and economic value that developments contribute to wider society (aka ‘social value’). Social value and ESG approaches should be applied throughout all the development phases, from design to construction to operations, in order to consider how our buildings positively impact local communities, economies and environments.

In this panel we invited operators, sustainability experts and consultants to see how that principle is being embedded into shared living projects and how appropriate structures and processes (e.g. KPIs) are being put in place to make ourselves accountable to our shareholders and wider stakeholders.

Panel Sponsored by Marc Koehler Architects

Moderator & Speakers

Moderator

Penny Clark

Co-Founder at Conscious Coliving

speaker

Gaëtan de Dietrich

Coliving Expert

speaker

Aukje Goossens

Project Manager & Architect at Marc Koehler Architects

speaker

Brigit Gerritse

Executive Director at ULI Benelux

Panel 2: User & Community Experience + Health & Wellbeing

After over a year of social isolation and quarantining becoming the norm, we need to vouch even stronger for a return to community and authentic connection. The potential of shared living developments will be defined by its streamlined operations, sustainable and natural design, but most importantly by the flourishing of their communities. This means embedding user and community experience at the core of the shared living business model.

Moreover, we strongly believe that the impact of the built environment on our (and the planet’s) health and wellbeing is enormous, and it is our responsibility as shared living professionals to ensure high quality, healthy and happy homes. This panel explored how design, experience and operational strategies could ultimately impact the health and wellbeing of coliving residents, staff and wider communities.

Panel Sponsored by Rockfield Real Estate

Moderator & Speakers

Moderator

Aitana de Jong

Co-Founder at Coliving Ventures

speaker

Puck van Opdorp

Connector Events & Partnerships at The Student Hotel

speaker

Lodewijk van Grootel

Property Operations Manager at Greystar

speaker

Remi Versteeg

Partner Architect at Beyond Space

speaker

Moreno Monsanto

Director of Concepts at Rockfield Real Estate

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

Event Partner

Media Partner

The future of shared living

‘The Common Agenda for Shared Living’ event gathered almost 40 shared living actors, including investors, developers, operators, architects and other industry decision-makers. During two panels we explored topics based on three pillars: Impact & Sustainability, User & Community Experience, Health & Wellbeing, as well as asked the participants questions related to their view on the future of shared living. If you missed the event, watch the highlights here. To-deep dive into key takeaways from the panels, download post-event booklet below.

Publication

The Common Agenda for Shared Living, Partnerships, collaboration, community and consolidation in the shared living sectors, was an in-person networking event that brought shared living professionals around a common agenda. The goal of the event and our wider vision at Coliving Ventures is to collaborate to foster economically, socially and environmentally sustainable shared living ventures that are both impact-driven and financially viable. This publication is a special edition of Coliving Insights in collaboration with Coliving Ventures (as Coliving Ventures’ first portfolio company), and provides a recap of the event with additional insights and best practices from the panelists.

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