Roof Coliving

Roof Coliving is a non-profit organization which has projects on the basis of citizen engagement, housing, urban, placemaking and social design, in terms of citizen rights. It redesigns living spaces with participatory methods, including human and community relations. Roof Coliving works with the dream of establishing common living spaces where people with different identities and disciplines can live together. It redesigns living spaces with participatory methods, including human and community relations. Roof Coliving started in 2019 with aim to create a new culture of living together by improving people's ability to live and produce together. Aim is to transform home culture from being private to a common life. It models common living spaces for regional needs with the participation of citizens through its work on the urban scale and tries to create pluralist and participatory dialogue spaces in cities by not accepting top-down design approaches. Roof Coliving conducts modelling to develop inclusive, human-centered, participatory, and innovative approaches by using civic involvement as a tool in our works. By working with local authorities, we convey our social innovation perspective, collaborate on the issues already on their agenda, and facilitate them to develop different approaches; we implement them together. In this way, we also activate collective intelligence, create a collective impact, and strengthen social innovation approaches in the public sector. Local governments have a lot of field experience, citizen knowledge, and technical insights. When we produce together with these differences, we create a mutual effect and scale our social impact.