MARIC, Marija ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Geography and Spatial Planning (DGEO) > Geography and Spatial Planning
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Housing for a Lonely Generation: Co-Living Platforms and the Real-Estate-Media Complex
Publication date :
2023
Journal title :
Footprint: Delft School of Design Journal
ISSN :
1875-1504
eISSN :
1875-1490
Publisher :
Technische Universitéit Delft/Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Special issue title :
Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling in the Digital Age
‘Housing for a Lonely Generation’ is a ‘real estate poem’ composed solely of phrases taken from the websites and online brochures of the three analysed co-living platforms: WeLive, Quarters, and The Collective (accessed on 14 August 2019). Real Estate Poetry is a long-term publishing project in which I consider the language of real estate advertising as a source of fiction and poetry.
Desiree Fields, ‘Automated Landlord: Digital Technologies and Post-Crisis Financial Accumulation’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 54, no. 1 (2022): 160–81, 176.
Hélène Frichot and Helen Runting, ‘The Promise of a Lack: Responding to (Her) Real Estate Career’, The Avery Review no. 8 (May 2015), http://averyreview. com/issues/2/the-promise-of-alack.
Hélène Frichot and Helen Runting, ‘In Captivity: The Real Estate of Co-Living’, in Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies, ed. Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helen Runting (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 140–49, 140.
Alberto Vanolo, City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), 17.
Alberto Vanolo, City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), 119.
Jamie Ballard, ‘Millennials Are the Loneliest Generation’, YouGov, 30 July 2019, https://today. yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2019/07/30/loneliness-friendship-new-friends-poll-survey.
To name just a few: Fields, ‘Automated Landlord’; Joe Shaw, ‘Platform Real Estate: Theory and Practice of New Urban Real Estate Markets’, Urban Geography 41, no. 8 (2018): 1–27; Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017).
Desiree Fields and Dallas Rogers, ‘Towards a Critical Housing Studies Research Agenda on Platform Real Estate’, Housing, Theory and Society 38, no. 1 (2019):72–94, https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.20 19.1670724.
Marija Marić, ‘Real Estate Fiction: Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginaries’ (doctoral diss., ETH Zurich, 2020).
On the attention economy, see Claudio Celis Bueno, The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
‘WeLive’, real estate advertisement, WeLive website, https://www.welive.com/; ‘Quarters’, real estate advertisement, Quarters website, https://quarters. com/; ‘The Collective’, real estate advertisement, The Collective website, https://www.thecollective.com/; all accessed 25 September 2020.
The room and apartment sizes are rarely included in the advertisement descriptions of co-living products.
Frichot and Runting, ‘In Captivity’, 145.
‘The Collective Old Oak’ real estate advertisement, The Collective website, https://www.thecollective. com/locations/old-oak.
Giovanna Borasi, ‘Attention to New Sites for Architecture’, in A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention, ed. Giovanna Borasi (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2021), 7–36, 27.
Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria, Rethinking the Smart City: Democratizing Urban Technology (New York: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2018).
Anna Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 57.
Anna Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 57.
‘WeLive’, real estate advertisement.
‘Quarters’, real estate advertisement.
‘Quarters’, and ‘WeLive’, Real Estate Advertisement.
James A. Throgmorton, ‘Planning as Persuasive Storytelling in the Context of “the Network Society”’, Planning Theory 2, no. 2 (July 2003): 125–51, 2.
James A. Throgmorton, ‘Planning as Persuasive Storytelling in the Context of “the Network Society”’, Planning Theory 2, no. 2 (July 2003): 2.
On mediascapes see Arjun Appadurai, ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’, Public Culture 2, no. 2 (1990): 1–24.
Justin McGuirk, ‘Honeywell, I’m Home! The Internet of Things and the New Domestic Landscape’, in Housing After the Neoliberal Turn, ed. Stefan Aue et al. (Berlin and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2015), 47–52, 48.
