Cafés provide the perfect grey area between home and work, but the ongoing pressure to buy more coffee or get out can be distracting and uncomfortable. Enter Russian 'anti-café' Ziferblat, where it's impossible to outstay your welcome.

Songs From a Room (SoFar) is a series of global pop-up gigs supporting new music. The idea is to bring bands and musicians closer to their fans, in an unusual, intimate setting.

People are joining new communities online and seeking new spaces offline to recapture lost intimacy. Definitions of what is considered acceptable in public are changing, while private behaviour is manifesting itself in public spaces.

The Living Room is billed as an ‘Xbox 360 entertainment lounge’. Light years away from a crowded arcade or zombie-like pc parlour, it provides a far more intimate gaming setting complete with plush leather sofas, flatscreen TVs and takeaway.