Living Together 2025 Symposium Wrap-Up
A video overview of the 2025 Living Together Symposium.
In May 2025, Hey Neighbour Collective gathered over 200 incredible people for two days of learning, connection, and collective action. It was a thrill to bring together so many individuals who continue to inspire us and build momentum toward our shared vision of a future where more of Canada’s multi-unit housing communities are age-friendly, socially connected, neighbourly, health-promoting, and resilient.
Guiding questions
Throughout the event, we explored two guiding questions:
“So What?” → What is the context we’re working within?
“Now What?” → What can we do about it?
To reflect this journey, the talented team at Debrief Communications created an engaging video featuring soundbites from plenaries, interviews, and more. The video grounds us in the realities of what’s happening, who’s in the room, and where the opportunities lie for collective action and meaningful policy and systems change.
The video has also been divided into two thematic segments for those interested in diving deeper: “So What? (The Polycrisis)” and “Now What? (Multisolving).”
Background
This interview is part of a collection of interviews emerging from Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health, and resilience.
Living Together 2025 was a two-day ‘collective action’ symposium that convened over 200 housing experts, public health professionals, municipal planners, architects, place-based community organizations, emergency management professionals, senior government policymakers, academics, and students.
We are deeply grateful to the many attendees who took the time to share their reflections and insights in brief interviews. From student research assistants to housing operators, policymakers, and public health practitioners, these voices capture the rich diversity present at the symposium.
