What is nature’s role in tomorrow’s habitat? Today, we face a crisis of attention towards non-human living beings. In this video, we confront misconceptions and transactional thinking towards nature and how to reframe these perspectives.

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Greenpeace is launching a new series, Science & Fictions. Each episode takes one big topic and opens a surprising dialogue between a fiction writer and someone working to push the boundaries of that domain out in the real world. They asked us to kick off their first episode: Tomorrow's Urban Habitats.

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For Dutch Design Week, IKEA and FRAME Magazine invited Cutwork cofounder Antonin Yuji Maeno to participate in a panel to discuss nature's role in our homes and how we can expand our everyday relationships with it through design.

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We were really excited to be featured in the newest issue of Coliving Insights: Impact & Sustainability. We unpack how digital manufacturing is helping is dramatically reducing the carbon footprint to build shared spaces. This full digital issue is a must-read within the industry:

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For our first ever Unfold Session, we invited the founders of EFFEKT, TC Plus, and MAPA to gather online and discuss: what is today's habitat? The full discussion is now online.

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Can we realistically expect cities to accommodate an influx of 3 billion people in the next 30 years? Cities are reaching their breaking point, and the answer is no longer a resounding ‘yes’. But what are our alternatives?

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Confessions: we love paper and print! If you’re like us and prefer the real-life experience of ideas on paper and want to learn how to print Unfold at home and fold it up to read anywhere, here are the steps:

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In our first issue of Unfold, we question ‘what is today’s habitat?’ and explore seven key projects redefining the ways we live and work today.

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Unfold is a print-at-home, ‘one-page’ magazine full of ideas for today’s living. Once a month, one A4, one topic – from the perspectives of designers, inventors, sociologists, and architects.

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“People want different ways of living, and coliving is providing a first stab at solving that.” Cutwork CEO Kelsea Crawford joins Urban Developers to discuss how these new models will impact Australia’s housing market.

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Lead architect Antonin Yuji Maeno joins a two-part event to discuss how nature can be reintegrated and thrive within the urban habitat.

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Explore new ways to live and work, discover projects, and keep up with studio events. With our monthly newsletter, you will receive the latest edition of Unfold, our one-page magazine you can print at home.

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In response to the work-from-anywhere movement, Nexity has asked us to understand and develop systems to transform traditional office spaces into dynamic habitats.

Together with German designer Stefan Diez, Cutwork has been guiding the work of ID1 students in Vienna’s Die Angewandte for this semester’s topic: GATHER! Cook, Eat, and Drink in the context of Shared Living. We’ve also been cooking up some new work with Diez Office – more soon!

Coasis, Becar Asset Management’s coliving brand is expanding to Produciton City, Dubai. Cutwork is designing the full interior concept and F,F&E to help catalyze the up-and-coming neighbourhood.

We joined the founders of Frame Magazine, Bureau SLA, and GG-loop to debate and explore how post-confinement will reshape residential design.

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Place Publique invited Cutwork cofounder Antonin Yuji Maeno to discuss the return of nature and living together in cities post-confinement (in French).

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Cutwork CEO, Kelsea Crawford presents to MIPIM Paris’s virtual audience about the state of the coliving movement and how it can adapt to the ongoing crisis.

Frame’s May issue highlights the Frame Awards and the insightful jury critiques we took part in to find ‘The Next Space’. Then Frame put the full issue online for free!

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Archicree highlighted our concept and multi-tiered approach to design and produce Flatmates.

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Wallpaper* delightfully featured Window Birds, an unexpected way to embrace confinement and open new connections to nature just out the window.

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Japanese artist Takesada Matsutani’s Shoen Foundation asked us to design their new shared artist residency and gallery space in Paris.

An invitation to re-open our senses in city habitats, Window Birds is an intro guide to bird watching – 55 different birds one can see just looking from a window during confinement.

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In April 2019, TEDx invited Cutwork cofounders to speak about ‘the future of shared architecture and urbanization’.

Cutwork has partnered with Co-Liv to lead the organization’s French chapter. We are hosting virtual meet-ups (and eventually real ones again) every month with thought leaders from the coliving world.

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A beautiful portrait of our studio, industrial technologies, and vision for shared urbanization in the March issue of AMC.

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Now nine, the studio is French, Japanese, American, British, Ukrainian, Russian, Trinidadian, Malaysian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Latvian, Canadian, and Dutch!

Bouygues Immobillier has tapped Cutwork to design the ‘look & feel’ and full F,F&E package for their upcoming coliving brand with 25 sites in the pipeline for France.

The youngest studio to ever win a FRAME Award -- huge thanks to all our partners who made the Flatmates project possible!

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Frame Magazine invited Cutwork cofounders to judge the 2019 Residential Category. To no surprise, debate raged over ‘coliving complex’ of the year with the fellow jury members…

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