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Curated articles from the Loneliness Lab network documenting our collective journey to designing out loneliness from our cities and communities

Design to Connect: A Community Learn-in

Design to Connect: A Community Learn-in

In autumn 2020 we brought together over 200 members of the Loneliness Lab community to share insights about how design can be used to…
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Loneliness Lab
Dec 16, 2020
Designing Urban Areas to Improve Wellbeing: Design to Connect with Our Future Foyle

Designing Urban Areas to Improve Wellbeing: Design to Connect with ...

Derry/Londonderry in the North West of Northern Ireland has been named one of the UK’s most disconnected cities. Physically distanced from…
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Jak Spencer
Jan 13, 2021
Tackling Loneliness and Designing Connection into the Redevelopment of Euston Station

Tackling Loneliness and Designing Connection into the Redevelopment...

My Experience with Loneliness
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Evie Treanor
Jan 11, 2021
Designing Buildings for Community, Culture and Connection

Designing Buildings for Community, Culture and Connection

Copyright: Garry Belinsky
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Clare Bailey
Sep 6, 2020
Shaping Spaces to Foster Meaningful Connection

Shaping Spaces to Foster Meaningful Connection

This is a Q&A I recently took part in with the Loneliness Lab team at Collectively to share the story of Her Barking.
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Phillippa Banister
May 4, 2020
Loneliness and Home Working: How to Look After Yourselves and Your Colleagues

Loneliness and Home Working: How to Look After Yourselves and Your ...

Workplace loneliness is already a huge issue for many and something we’ve been exploring for the last year at the Loneliness Lab. Being…
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Bethan Harris
Mar 19, 2020
Combatting neighbourhood loneliness during coronavirus — 4 things you can do

Combatting neighbourhood loneliness during coronavirus — 4 things y...

It’s been a tough week. With daily life grinding to a halt and the future uncertain, it’s been uplifting to see so many wonderful acts of…
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Loneliness Lab
Mar 20, 2020
Loneliness in Urban Areas — A Scandinavian Case Study

Loneliness in Urban Areas — A Scandinavian Case Study

In writing her thesis in Sweden, Martina Gnewski explores the link between loneliness and the built environment, and examines how action…
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Loneliness Lab
Aug 28, 2020
Less Lonely with…neighbourhood community

Less Lonely with…neighbourhood community

How do we build a sense of belonging in an increasingly digital, and more recently isolated, world? By startin with those physically…
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Loneliness Lab
May 26, 2020
Less Lonely with… parks

Less Lonely with… parks

As lockdown Britain has allowed us one form of daily outdoor exercise, parks have been the only place to legitimately see other people…
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Loneliness Lab
Jul 15, 2020
How to design out loneliness from your workplace

How to design out loneliness from your workplace

Across the UK, loneliness is an increasing problem in our cities, and no more so than in our workplaces. We spend ⅓ of our life working…
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Loneliness Lab
Dec 2, 2019
Less Lonely with…Craft Moves

Less Lonely with…Craft Moves

How do people connect with strangers? This has been explored through many initiatives like chatty cafes and benches. What we’re learning…
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Loneliness Lab
Feb 26, 2020
Designing out Children’s Loneliness

Designing out Children’s Loneliness

The loneliness epidemic is far-reaching, affecting the oldest and youngest members of our society. It has been reported that children as…
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Sophiejo
Feb 14, 2020
Less Lonely with…Special Guest

Less Lonely with…Special Guest

Being lonely in a crowded room and the unnerving of networking can be horrible feelings, we caught up with SG because they have found a…
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Loneliness Lab
Feb 24, 2020
The Power of Opening Up — a Reflection from the Loneliness Lab

The Power of Opening Up — a Reflection from the Loneliness Lab

On a sunny morning last October, I was off the tube at London Bridge and making my way to the first day of the Loneliness Lab — a five-day…
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Jake Heitland
Aug 14, 2019
The Changing Face Of Loneliness In Lockdown

The Changing Face Of Loneliness In Lockdown

And how we can connect better, even when we’re apart
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Alice Peperell
Apr 21, 2020
Less Lonely with… London Is Lonely

Less Lonely with… London Is Lonely

What is London is Lonely?
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Loneliness Lab
Jan 17, 2020
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