Sidewalk Labs is an Alphabet company that imagines, designs, tests, and builds urban innovations to help cities meet their biggest challenges. The company is designing a new kind of mixed-use, complete community on Toronto’s waterfront called Sidewalk Toronto. Following its own exploratory research to generate hypotheses on the notion of flexible housing, the company partnered with Nurun to conduct confirmatory research that would confirm or overturn these assumptions before the project advanced any further. Sidewalk Labs’s vision seeks to better meet the needs of households across all life stages by incorporating two forms of flexibility into the home: - Units that can grow or shrink with household needs - The ability to seamlessly move or transfer between units within a building or network Credits: Agency: Nurun https://www.nurun.com/en/