Gamified Cohousing

"The pioneer of shared living"

We turn empty buildings INTO
SELF-MANAGED MICRO-ECONOMIES

Gamified Cohousing transforms underused buildings
into shared living and working environments through
participatory renovation, self-governance, and adaptive reuse.

We combine private spaces, shared facilities,
and community-based management to create more
affordable and socially connected ways of living.

Rather than treating buildings as fixed products,
we develop them as evolving communities,
shaped with the people who use them.

THE Gamified Cohousings

Kannus

Oulu

Lappeenranta

Hyrsylän Koulu

Kajaani

Kathmandu

"(...) a company that has saved buildings under threat of demolition across Finland."

"(...) a new communal living concept in Finland to ease the housing situation."

The App

The Gamified Cohousing app supports the daily coordination of shared living and working. It helps residents organize tasks, manage shared spaces, communicate with each other, and build transparent self-management practices. The system is being developed progressively across our projects, starting from practical tools such as cleaning schedules, shared responsibilities, and facility coordination.

why gamified cohousing?

Across Finland and beyond, usable buildings stand empty while housing becomes more expensive, standardized, and socially fragmented.

Gamified Cohousing responds to this by transforming underused buildings into shared living and working environments through participatory renovation, adaptive reuse, and self-governance.

The model combines private spaces, shared facilities, and community-based management so that residents can take part in the life of the building from the very beginning, rather than simply consume it. This helps reduce costs, strengthen social connection, and make better use of existing resources.

Gamified Cohousing grew out of the broader research framework of Architectural Democracy, which asks how buildings can support participation, responsibility, and more locally rooted ways of living together.

Rather than treating architecture as a finished product, we see it as an evolving process, shaped by the people who use it.

the Re renovate symposiums

Re-Renovate is our symposium series on participatory renovation, adaptive reuse, and the future of the built environment.

Following the first edition in Oulu in 2025 and the second in Venice later that year, the symposium brings together architects, researchers, cultural producers, and policymakers to rethink how buildings can be transformed with greater social, ecological, and democratic value.

PRESS

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"(...) a new communal living concept in Finland to ease the housing situation."

"The pioneer of shared living"

"The company, which operates in the field of property management, has already converted three former school, daycare and station buildings around Finland into living and working spaces"

"(...) a company that has saved buildings under threat of demolition across Finland."

“An interesting example of utilizing technologies for building residential communities and developing an “adaptive reuse service”.”

BOOKS

Gamified Cohousing book chapter publication

Future for Europe moscow book 2019 arcdem and gamified cohousing publication

lectures

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THE BLOG

The Myth of New Construction

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March 18, 2026

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New construction is usually presented as the rational answer to housing needs. It appears clean, measurable, bankable, and future-oriented. By contrast, renovation is treated as sentimental, technically awkward, and financially uncertain. But this contrast is deeply misleading. What new construction often offers is not superior social, ecological, or even economic value. It offers legibility to a system built around standardisation: standard permits, standard insurance, standard finance, standard procurement, standard ownership structures.

Demolition as Default: How Cities Destroy Their Past

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March 16, 2026

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Buildings rarely disappear with drama. They fade quietly through postponed maintenance, temporary repairs, and technical reports until renovation is declared “uneconomical” and demolition becomes inevitable. Across Finland and much of the developed world, structurally viable schools, municipal buildings, and housing blocks are routinely demolished, not because they have failed, but because renovation is administratively complex and economically uncertain.

The Architecture of Exclusion

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February 11, 2026

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The contemporary housing crisis is often framed as a shortage problem. Not enough homes, not enough speed, not enough efficiency. This framing …

Team

Pedro Aibéo

CEO

Architect and Civil Engineer and Founder of the Gamified Cohousing

Rajani Dangol

Administrative & Expansion
Coordinator

Concentrating on improving the overall performance of the company

Marbin Chaudary

Finance & Grants Officer

Finance professional supporting the financial operations and grants work.

Nistha Tiwari

Architect

Architect with a strong sensitivity to sustainable and urban design.

Partners

Academic & Research Institutions

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
University of Sydney
Aalto University
Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV)
Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK)
Kpedu – Central Ostrobothnia Vocational Education Consortium
OSAO – Oulu Vocational College (Oulun seudun ammattiopisto)
Concreto Academy

Cultural & Artistic Partners

Mälkiä-Kanavansuu Residents’ Association (Mälkiä-Kanavansuun asukasyhdistys ry)
K&C ry
Promotion Centre for Folk Music and Folk Dance (Kansanmusiikin ja Kansantanssin Edistämiskeskus, KEK)
Folk Music Association Rällä (Rällä ry)
The Irish Music Society of Oulu ry
Oulu Culture Events Association
World Music School Helsinki ry
Air Guitar World Championships
TaikaBox ry
Factum Foundation
ARK – Finnish Architectural Review
Caisa Cultural Centre, Helsinki

Professional & Industry Associations

PROTO – Association of Northern Finnish Designers
Northern Finland SAFA – Finnish Association of Architects
RIA – The Association of Construction Engineers and Architects (Rakennusinsinöörit ja -arkkitehdit ry)
HouseEurope! Initiative
Aalto Siilo
Arctic Construction Cluster Finland

Companies & Foundations

JK Associates
Parmaco Oy
Worldpackers
Coliving

Governmental & EU Institutions

Business Finland
BusinessOulu
Oulu2026 – European Capital of Culture
Instituto Ibero-Americano de Finlândia
New European Bauhaus Prizes / European Commission

Our Own Initiatives

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Recognitions / Institutional Engagement

Gamified Cohousing operates at the intersection of architecture, governance, and community innovation, with recognition across European and global institutional platforms.

United Nations – World Urban Forum (WUF13)
Selected for the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum 13 (WUF13), presenting Gamified Cohousing as a scalable model combining adaptive reuse and digitally enabled community self-governance in housing.

New European Bauhaus (NEB)
Gamified Cohousing is a finalist of the 2025 New European Bauhaus Awards and part of the NEB Regions and Cities network, a European platform supporting initiatives that shape sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetically meaningful environments.

European Union Transparency Register
Gamified Cohousing is registered in the EU Transparency Register (REG 7344744100535–19), ensuring openness, accountability, and engagement within European institutional processes.

We turn empty buildings INTO
SELF-MANAGED MICRO-ECONOMIES