Present day digitally equipped society thrives in their current state of instability and uncertainty. They have changed the traditional idea of society we held on-to for so long. Eliminating the social media covers, they face feelings of isolation and rootlessness. They seek grounding and aspire to experience the homely feeling. This in turn leads them to find third places or co-spaces where they can interact with people and belong to a community. They look to be anchored to a space-time conundrum.
This contemporary liquid society, which is symbolized by the Digital Nomads are adapting to opportunistic neoliberal changes. They seek for pre-built communities which can support their condensed temporality. The constant nomadicity mirrors the digital nomad identity. It is closely related to their choice to find a place to stay, work, and socialize whileaddressing the challenge to manage their life. Thus, it is necessary to define a social infrastructure which gathers andcentralizes Digital Nomads by promoting chanced encounters with the pre-existing local communities.
Co-living programs that encompass all places from first to third, could especially represent an intensive option to engage in a community in a limited time. This leads us to the importance of exploring how the digital nomads’ temporal lifestyles lead to a new way of understanding social infrastructures and how social infrastructures could be designed to support this condensed temporality and provide them with an anchor point.
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