After the coworking comes the coliving
The concept of coworking is already mainstream and growing more and more, now is the time for a new concept to take life, coliving. As you might – or not – have read here I am looking for alternative ways of living, I already looked for tiny houses and last week I found myself dining at a new coliving house in Amsterdam. The first thing I have to say is that is great.
The one I visited is the Embassy Amsterdam. The embassy network is already in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Costa Rica, Haiti and Greece, and now, most recently in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam the house is a canal house in Keizergracht, not quite a house, but a mention. Right now there are 5 residents in the house and they are looking for another one in one of the biggest rooms of the house, which is suitable for a couple. In the top floor of the house they hold a dorm with a few beds where people from other embassies can rest while visiting the city.
Every Sunday they host a dinner for people to get to know the place and exchange ideas. It was one of funniest things I have done in Amsterdam so far, everyone is open to meet each other and the subject is far from being that old “what do you do” talk or business. With a international, young and free vibe it makes you want to pack a little suitcase and move in immediately.
One of the most interesting parts is the variety of people living together and how they created what every coworking space should be, but in a house. It’s all about supporting and growing with each other. There might not be much of silence as if you are living by yourself but at the same time is never boring, you are surrounded by great people – no crazy roommates aloud – and you get a lot more than living by yourself. Also, there is the side that your are living in a huge, beautiful house in one of the best locations of the city in an affordable way. I haven’t tried it yet, but I can tell it’s a hell of a experience and a very much needed one, foreseeing the problems with housing the whole world is facing.
The embassy network is not the first or only doing coliving. Initiatives like this are popping up in all the big cities in the world, Seoul, Tokyo, Barcelona, London, Bali and New York – where WeWork chose as the first city to have a WeLive, which shows how coworking and coliving can be connected. Seats2meet itself is looking into collaboration with the Zoku, another coliving based in Amsterdam, which also have the living kitchen – the social version of a restaurante, according to them.
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