Launching Zeta House in Austin Texas
Zeta House is a coliving + coworking location located at 1310 East 2nd Street of Austin Texas.
Coliving is a modern form of communal living where residents share not just physical living spaces but also social and collaborative environments. It combines the practical aspects of shared resources with the flexibility and community-driven ethos often lacking in traditional shared housing arrangements.
Rather than merely reducing per-resident cost by sharing facilities (kitchens, dining rooms, living rooms, bathrooms), coliving focuses on active social engagement between residents and the shared facilities are the physical-platform by which this is achieved. Thus sharing facilities should not be considered a detriment to each resident, but an enhancement to resident lifestyle, economics, and health.
Why do we focus on social engagement, what exactly does this entail?
Social engagement is about is creating trust between resident members to allow residents to work together towards collective-action goals that would otherwise be difficult to achieve alone.
This means engagement can mean any activity to increase trust between residents. Generically the definition of trust is the ability for party to be vulnerable to another party on the presumption that they will act in ways that benefit the trustor.
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To be more specific, many things can increase trust (religion, culture... etc), but Zeta House focuses on these areas of trust (not exclusive-to):
- Entrepreneurship
- Technology
- Startup Society
- Decentralism
- Futurism
- Optionally a strategically ambiguous techno-anarcho-libertarian-alternative mindset
These ideas were inspired by other coliving movements such as the Cabin City - an actualisation of the network state philosophy, and Creators ATX - Christian coliving community based in Austin.
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This entails a unique set of social activities at Zeta House that overlaps with other coliving spaces.
- Coworking - is the primary draw (and one of the key additional physical features to the property)
- Meetups (focusing on tech and tech-adjacent concepts)
- Digital Native Events - broadcasting meetups to the internet, and marrying the digital with the physical
- Occasional communal dinners - sharing food has been theorised to lead to the invention of language - occasional eating together shares culture, and people may be less guarded than other scenarios
- Consultation/Advise/Allowing members to share knowledge, skills, concepts, funding, human and financial capital
In particular, the coworking side is the most important social activity in Zeta house. This is why Zeta House is a coliving + coworking site.
Unlike simply a shared office or rented desks, the coworking experience is directly linked to the coliving experience. Every room is assigned a "workspace" in the office room. We distinguish "workspace" from regular desk, because we envision it to be more than just a basic desk.
This means that each workspace becomes dedicated to the resident, and the resident must feel comfortable leaving their valuable equipment in the office.
AI imagined coliving + coworking space
The coworking space represents the key collective action trust-building physical space. Even though residents may be working on their own projects, they collectively can contribute resources towards building things in common or enabling each other's success through sharing skills, knowledge, technology, tools and experience.
Zeta House isn't necessarily right for everybody and every circumstance. Life circumstances change, and residents may grow out of Zeta house. In that case the location represents a phase in people's lives, but an very important, dynamic, engaging and exciting phase. A phase that represents growth.
