The operating manual for shared living, written by Gui Perdrix and published through Co-Liv. The industry knows it simply as the coliving bible.
The Art of Coliving starts on the road. Co-Liv sponsors a world tour by Gui Perdrix, who visits coliving spaces around the world to research how shared living actually works. That research grows into interviews with 200+ organizations across the industry.
The result is the book the industry calls its bible: a practical operating manual that turns coliving from instinct into practice, written by the author who serves as Co-Liv's president from 2020 to 2024 and sits on its board today.
Get the bookCo-Liv defines coliving simply, as any shared living space that improves the quality of life of its residents. The Art of Coliving is the operating manual behind that definition: how the people who run shared living spaces do it in practice, gathered from hundreds of conversations into one book.
It belongs to a larger body of work. Co-Liv writes the books, reports and handbooks that turn coliving from instinct into practice, and this book anchors that shelf alongside the summit reports, the Community Facilitation Handbook and the industry surveys of the Co-Liv library.
The research behind it also feeds the association's wider work: the summits and events where the industry meets, and the story of Co-Liv itself, from a first summit in San Francisco to the main stage of MIPIM in Cannes.
The same people Co-Liv connects: the operators, investors, designers and policymakers building shared living worldwide. If you operate a coliving space, design one, invest in one or shape policy around one, this is your manual.
It also speaks to community builders, the people doing what Co-Liv's own research calls the hardest job in coliving: community management. The people behind Co-Liv carry that same craft across chapters on five continents.
The Art of Coliving is written by Gui Perdrix and published through Co-Liv in 2022, under ISBN 978‑2‑9577606‑0‑2. It is available through Art of Co.
The book shares its shelf with summit reports, handbooks and surveys. All of it lives in the library.
The book is one shelf of a 6,000-page resource library: recordings, datasets, chapter materials. Ask and we will dig.
