The unprecedented rise of urban dwellers living on their own challenges normative ideas about home and raises questions about how this change in social structure and lifestyle affects cities as a whole. While the causes of living alone seem apparent—shifting social values, the flexibilization of labour, new demographics, increased wealth, and changes to normative gender roles—the effects on society and its spatial configurations remain uncertain. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, the documentary film When We Live Alone interrogates this new urban condition, offering glimpses into the lives of individuals inhabiting singleton homes and the extended domestic sphere. Urban dwellers living on their own, architect Takahashi Ippei, and sociologist Yoshikazu Nango navigate the audience through a series of sole spaces in Tokyo.

When We Live Alone is screening at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. A Q&A with CCA Director, Giovanna Borasi, will precede the screening, and a discussion on the changing needs for living spaces and how designers can provide for them with Darinka Czischke, professor at the TU Delft University and organisor of the Together! Project, Arie Lengkeek, urbanist and founder of the Rotterdam Woongenootschap (Rotterdam housing society), and Lisanne Rissik, architect and specialist in co-housing, will follow the screening.

LantarenVenster
Otto Reuchlinweg 996
3072 MD Rotterdam
Netherlands

Friday, 8 October, 2021 at 3pm (Rotterdam time)

Purchase tickets here. The film will also be screened online here.