Old and young co-living – renting a world of exchange

An old-young co-living project in New Taipei provides seniors and young people with the opportunity for mutual care and interaction. Learning from experience abroad, the co-living project allows people from different generations and professional domains to live together. The project hasn’t developed exactly as intended due to the impossibility of predicting how people interact, but then this idiosyncrasy of the current co-living project model has provided roommates with an extended period of time to get used to each other and been a catalyst for the exchange of ideas and experience.

Creating spaces where different generations of people can live together provides some human warmth in today's fast-paced world. Hopefully, in the future, we will see the stable development of co-living spaces that address the needs of many more people.

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在新北市有個青銀共居計畫，讓銀髮族和青年能夠透過共居彼此照應與交流。學習國外經驗，青銀共居計畫讓來自不同世代、不同專業領域的人共同生活，雖然不完全依循著計畫初衷運行，但正因為人與人之間的相處無法預期，室友們才能在長期相處之下互相磨合，也激盪許多想法和經驗交流。

青銀共居為快速發展的社會增添了人與人相處的溫度，期待看見未來更穩定的發展，讓更多有需求的人能透過共居互助。

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