The longlist has been published for the 2022 Davidson Prize, the second edition of the annual competition series. The 2022 theme, “Co-Living: A New Future,” called on entrants to speculate on the potential for co-living models to tackle systemic issues in the housing sector, including loneliness, housing shortages, and the needs of single-person or single-parent households.
“Faced with the implications of an aging population, rising costs of care, and the environmental price of energy and embodied carbon, our homes are also increasingly moonlighting as places where people earn a living,” noted the competition brief. “On top of that, they’re sites of the invisible labor that keeps the supply chains of economies oiled (in the UK alone, it’s thought that the value of unpaid work taking place in the homes of today is around £700 billion annually). Are our homes up to the job?”
Three finalists from the longlist will be announced in April, with an overall winner announced in June. The three finalists will receive £5,000 ($6,500) to develop their ideas, while the overall winner will receive £10,000 ($13,000).
The 2022 edition is the second in the competition’s history. 2021 saw the inaugural edition of the prize, which focused on the theme “Home/Work: A New Future.” The winning proposal, led by Haptic Architects, centered on biophilic home design through their entry HomeForest.
Below, we have republished the 14 longlisted entries. Full details of each entry can be found on the official website here.
Co-Living Retrofit / Azhar Architecture
A Culture Of Community / Baillie Baillie Architects And Community Land Scotland
Co-Living In The Countryside / Charles Holland Architects With Quality Of Life Foundation, Verity-Jane Keefe, Joseph Zeal-Henry
It Takes A Village / Child-Hood
Curious Minds Society / Child Graddon Lewis, Split, Eley Kishimoto & Hungry Sandwich
Recipro-City / Heta Architects
Urban Network Of Collective Care / Living Streets
Communiversity / Moebius Studio
Afterlife / Name Architecture + Airc.Digital
Retrofitting Co-Living / Team 5
A Model For Progressive ‘Family’ Housing / The Progressive Housing Design Group
Care / Ring / Tonkin Liu
A Taste Of Home / Will King + Hari Kumar
Co-Living Works! / Workhome Project
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