Sharing Where We Live: Exploring More Affordable, Sustainable and Communal Ways of Living

7-8.30pm AEDT (Melbourne, Sydney); 6-7.30pm AEST (Brisbane); 6:30-8pm ACDT/ACT (Adelaide, Darwin); 5-6.30pm AWST (Perth)

Please note that the Humanitix event finishes after several days - this is to keep the page active after the event for those wishing to order a printed copy of the booklet.

As housing becomes increasingly expensive and the ecological impacts of how we live become harder to ignore, what might we gain by sharing more?

Join the Degrowth Network and New Economy Network Australia (NENA) for the launch of Sharing Where We Live, a new booklet exploring how we can live more affordably, sustainably and communally.

Drawing on practical tips and stories from people with experience across different living arrangements, the booklet invites us to expand our ideas about what a home — and a household — can look like.

This panel and community discussion will bring together people with experience of shared housing, co-housing, ecovillages and other forms of communal living to explore both the possibilities and practical realities of sharing where we live. We’ll consider how different approaches can reduce living costs and resource consumption, strengthen relationships and community, and challenge some of our assumptions about private space, ownership and the way our homes are organised.

Most importantly, this is a conversation about practical possibilities. Whether you're curious about sharing more within your existing household, considering shared or communal housing, or simply interested in alternatives to conventional housing models, the session will offer ideas and experiences to learn from.

Participants will receive access to the new Sharing Where We Live booklet and leave with practical ideas and inspiration for imagining different ways of living.

This session is part of Healthy Humane Habitats Month: Reimagining how we live, together.

(The event starts at 6pm AEST and 7pm AEDT)

• Anisa: Degrowth Network, lead author of the booklet, longterm sharehouser and co-founder of a limited equity housing co-operative in it's early stages.

• Emilie and Jon: Living More with Less - a practical, research-informed family experiment focused on global challenges, personal wellbeing, and solutions that are in reach for the majority of people. (https://livingmorewithless.org/)

• Yin and Victoria: Anam Cara - a 50 acre farm that is home to a small group of radical humans living on the land, restoring connection with country, and working to heal both as individuals and as a collective back into right relationship with one another and with the natural world. (www.anamcarahomestead.com.au)

• Eden (Teq) Smith: concept-smith, curator and organiser with RAD Housing (https://radhousing.org/) and Commons Social Change Library (https://commonslibrary.org/). Currently living as an intermittent-resident on a shared property with many dwellings, and cross-pollinating between two projects transitioning towards housing stewardship.