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The future-housing laboratory of IKEA, SPACE10, has declared that the next seven days would be dedicated to a ?playful research project? to inspect the prospects of co-habitation.
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A website called ‘onesharedhouse2030.com? was launched by IKEA along with Anton & Irene – a design agency in Brooklyn, New York. Upon visiting the website, the user is required to submit their approval for living in a fictional co-habitation society in 2030. They are also asked about the kind of people they are willing to live with and the order in which the society should be. Moreover, the application form asks the user about the stuff they would let others share with them like work areas, kitchens, automated cars, and smart amenities. SPACE10 expects that this research experiment would give enough knowledge about co-habitation and whether it could provide practical solutions to problems like rapid urban growth, expensive housing, and lonesomeness.
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SPACE10 declared,? Humans across the world are moving to cities in numbers we haven’t experienced before. By 2030 almost 70 percent of the global population will live in cities, and some experts estimate that almost two billion people?a fifth of the world?s population?will lack access to adequate and affordable housing.?
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?Our cities have never been more attractive to so many...