The Australian Home of the Future: Smaller, Smarter, More Human | The Edit Live (Part 2) Home Beautiful x Metricon

Should a robot ever be allowed to fold your laundry? It sounds like a throwaway question, but it cuts right to the heart of what the Australian home is becoming. In Part 2 of this bonus episode, recorded live at Metricon’s National Love of Design Summit, Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock hands the microphone to the audience, and the panel of Ali Whelan (Breathe Architecture), Michael Leung (Balanced Earth Architects), Neil Hipwell (Futureflip) and James Treble takes on questions no one saw coming. 

Together they imagine the Australian home of the future, smaller, smarter and far more adaptable, explore why builders who’ve created some of the most high-tech houses in the country are quietly stepping away from the tech, and answer the question that nearly stumped all four of them: what’s the internal compass that drives you? 

Moments You’ll Hear: 

• Why the Australian home of the future is smaller, smarter and more adaptable
• The affordability and trade-shortage puzzle shaping what we can actually build
• Why a half-a-million-dollar smart home taught Neil an expensive lesson
• The case for “low-tech first”, and why a little friction is worth protecting
• Whether a laundry full of robots would quietly kill a building’s community
• The question that nearly stumped the panel: what’s your internal compass? 

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This bonus episode of The Edit was recorded live at Metricon’s National Love of Design Summit. A huge thank you to Metricon for welcoming Home Beautiful into a room so full of ideas. https://www.metricon.com.au 

Credits:  

Our guests: Ali Whelan (Breathe Architecture), Michael Leung (Balanced Earth Architects), Neil Hipwell (Futureflip) and James Treble (interior designer & colour expert)  

Host Elle Lovelock  

Edited by Thomas Crnkovic 

Head of Vodcasting Rachel Fountain 

With thanks to our fabulous Home Beautiful team. 

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