Impermaculture Report
Research report by Dazed and SPACE10 on how 18–24-year-olds define and experience home.
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Based on a 1,182-respondent global survey, expert panels, and interviews, it argues Gen Z treats home as portable identity, community, and safety rather than fixed property. Key findings include 73% reporting multiple homes, 67% wanting to own a home, bedroom as primary space, and rising privacy and climate concerns.
- Slide 1: Dazed & SPACE10 IMPERMACULTURE: Youth and the Future of Living
- Slide 2: A comprehensive report on home and its meaning to 18–24 year olds
- Slide 3: Contents: Identity, Community, Spaces, Health & Connected Homes
- Slide 4: Executive summary & methodology
- Slide 5: Home as a feeling of belonging, not just a place
- Slide 6: 'Home can be people': participant perspective
- Slide 7: Six home truths about Gen Z
- Slide 8: Who is today’s youth? Defining Generation Z
- Slide 9: Methodology: survey sample, interviews, and expert panel
- Slide 10: Global experts and audience voices
- Slide 11: Audience: where they spend time, live and which devices they use
- Slide 12: Introduction: Impermaculture: Home Away From Home
- Slide 13: Youth robbed of roots: precarity, loneliness and impermanence
- Slide 14: Kwame Lowe on the lost connection to land
- Slide 15: Impermaculture: concept map of core themes
- Slide 16: Helen Job: a transformative decade for home and housing
- Slide 17: In an era defined by personal, professional and financial insecurity
- Slide 18: Home is safety and comfort
- Slide 19: Personal testimonies on displacement and the meaning of home
- Slide 20: Worlds apart but in agreement: global snapshots of home
- Slide 21: Dazed & SPACE10 Home Away From Home
- Slide 22: Traditional definitions of home
- Slide 23: Gen Z sees home as community and planet
- Slide 24: A brief history of home
- Slide 25: The era of instability
- Slide 26: Next generation's complex understanding of home
- Slide 27: Cultural drivers shifting definitions of home
- Slide 28: 'Work 'til you drop': youth perspective
- Slide 29: 281 million people are currently displaced
- Slide 30: Refugee testimony: priorities when fleeing
- Slide 31: Climate collapse: homes at risk, public split on hope
- Slide 32: Shrinking worlds, growing divides: isolation, nationalism, travel barriers
- Slide 33: Peak trust crisis: tech trusted more than social media
- Slide 34: Gen Z's top concerns for 2022: climate, money and mental health
- Slide 35: Gen Z's priorities 2022: relationships, creativity and wellbeing
- Slide 36: What is home now?
- Slide 37: Home isn't a place: it's a feeling
- Slide 38: Gen Z: home is primarily a feeling, not a physical space
- Slide 39: Home equals safety, comfort, belonging and freedom
- Slide 40: Home is more than a space
- Slide 41: Respondents framed home as emotional refuge:examples include a Female, 24
- Slide 42: Young people connect 'home' to sensory experience: warmth, hugs
- Slide 43: Home is safety, support, and belonging
- Slide 44: Unpacking the concept of home
- Slide 45: Great expectations vs. reality
- Slide 46: Gen Z's new rules for living
- Slide 47: Identity: a need for self‑expression
- Slide 48: Three headline claims: 'Home becomes identity', 'Objects as mobile
- Slide 49: Quoted experiences of safety and self‑expression
- Slide 50: Home becomes identity: key findings
- Slide 51: Objects as mobile homes
- Slide 52: Spaces of representation: only 1% of architects are Black
- Slide 53: Frames community as transferable and elastic: shared experiences, values
- Slide 54: Community is home: the future is shared
- Slide 55: Home as chosen family and social community
- Slide 56: Community safety nets: 10% of UK parents used food banks
- Slide 57: Co-living and shared ownership as housing responses
- Slide 58: Local and IRL: digital ties vs. real-world loneliness
- Slide 59: Living with impermanence: home as distributed
- Slide 60: A state of flux: the bedroom as home
- Slide 61: Gen Z frames home as fluid, emotional and non‑physical
- Slide 62: 67% want to own a home, but barriers and attitudes vary
- Slide 63: A state of flux: multiple homes and short‑term living are common
- Slide 64: The bedroom has become a multi‑functional home for young people
- Slide 65: 64% say the bedroom is their most important personal space
- Slide 66: Young people spend more time at university or online than at home
- Slide 67: Health & Safety: prioritising basic needs
- Slide 68: Safe spaces: home, wellness and climate action
- Slide 69: Home described as safety, mental health and refuge
- Slide 70: Safety is the top priority when defining the ideal home
- Slide 71: Home & wellness: mental health and youth priorities
- Slide 72: Climate action: sustainability reshapes home design
- Slide 73: Connected homes: meaningful social interaction
- Slide 74: Surveillance anxiety, private life, blurred boundaries
- Slide 75: Why people use technology at home: Dazed Home Survey 2022
- Slide 76: Smart-home digitisation raises privacy concerns
- Slide 77: Private life: post‑pandemic anti‑sharing and IRL socialising
- Slide 78: Blurred boundaries: Web3 and metaverse enter the home
- Slide 79: What does the future hold for home?
- Slide 80: 'Do we need to imagine houses of the future?': Jack Self
- Slide 81: 83% of Gen Z describe their generation as 'creative'
- Slide 82: Community will become an extension of family through shared living
- Slide 83: Homes will become smaller, modular, and portable
- Slide 84: Climate change will alter the shape of the home
- Slide 85: Technology will make homes and communities healthier and more efficient
- Slide 86: Closing slide marking the end of Impermaculture: Youth
- Slide 87: Comprehensive bibliography listing research reports, news articles, and academic sources
- Slide 88: Continuation of the deck's reference list with expanded citations
- Slide 89: Image credits and colophon
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