A place to be not at home, not at work – just human.
Home keeps you grounded, work keeps you solvent—but it’s the third place that keeps you human.
A third space is somewhere that isn’t your lounge room or your office, where you can show up, recognise a few faces, and feel the background hum of community.
Doorways you walk through alone and leave a little more ‘we’. These in-between places help tame the lonely edges of modern life.
We’ve always had them; the village square, the church hall, the local library. In regional Australia it’s the pub, in the city it’s the café that remembers your order, or the co-working desk with free wifi. Different walls, same purpose.
Humans are pack animals.
From childhood, we are hardwired to seek connection for survival. Belonging is embedded into us as a biological imperative. Yet, loneliness is surging, and it’s a serious health risk.
Health professionals now prescribe social connection because sharing space really does steady the nervous system – stress hormones settle, heart rates align, moods lift by osmosis. A simple grin from across the room is low-dose dopamine. That’s co-regulation, ie. nature’s group chat.
Even introverts need that gentle proximity, just at a volume they can handle. It can make a big difference to just be amongst other humans, no small-talk required.
Social prescribing is a way to connect people with a group, a club, a class, a way to sit among strangers until they’re not. Done right, it honours culture, identity, neuro-spice, and today’s hard realities of time and cash.
Third spaces invite interconnection.
That’s why at our studios the communal kettle is always on the boil and the jigsaw puzzle is live. Let Human.Kind be your modern town square, a small antidote to isolation, an open door into a wider ‘we.’
The kind of place that reminds you that you’re wired for one another.
