Our Mission
Design out loneliness from our cities
9 million of us are lonely
It’s time we changed that
Urban loneliness is growing rapidly around the world. Loneliness can be as bad for our health as smoking, and places a huge strain on the economy and society, as well as individual mental health.
The solution lies beyond simply asking people to be better neighbours. We need to look at the structural drivers that make our cities such lonely places.
The Loneliness Lab is a global collective of people and organisations on a mission to design connection in to the places where we live, work and play
Together we are…
Understanding
what's driving urban loneliness and how we can design for connection
Experimenting
with ways to tackle loneliness in real spaces and places
Influencing
policy and industry change to make designing for connection the new normal
800+
place makers, policy makers and loneliness campaigners
And we’re growing rapidly
Get involved and share your ideas on designing for connection.
Read our latest report
From meaningful masterplans to conversational corridors, our Autumn 2020 Community Learn-in brought together over 200 members of our global network to share learnings and inspire action.
Capturing these insights and more, Using Design to Connect Us is our crowd-sourced guide to tackling loneliness through the built environment.
The Loneliness Lab is powered by
The Loneliness Lab was co-founded in 2018 by global property and infrastructure company, Lendlease, and social innovation non-profit, Collectively, who share a commitment to making our cities less lonely.
Some of the many organisations who share our mission to design out loneliness
