Is short-term living redefining the meaning of “home”?
In our first paper of our New Ways of Living series, we introduced the NWL Framework: a dynamic lens for questioning, prototyping, and continually shaping our vision for the future of residential design. Our second paper explored how shared-living models informed our proposal for the Visionfor Rome competition, revealing how collective lifestyles can generate new forms of urban vitality.
In this third paper, we shift the focus to a typology that sits at the intersection of lifestyle shifts, economic conditions, and evolving patterns of mobility and travel: short-term living. This typology is expanding rapidly into new formats as global citizens adopt increasingly fluid relationships with work, travel, and place. The persistence of hybrid and remote work is one of the structural enablers of this shift: one 2025 global review counts 64 countries offering digital nomad visas and notes that 91% of tracked nomad/remote-worker visas were launched after 2020, evidencing a rapid,post-pandemic policy wave. (Global Citizen Solutions, Global Digital Nomad Report 2025).
