Evenings with DADo: Good Life

Join us at Walsh Street for a screening of the documentary Good Life (2022), which follows a group of young people at Tech Farm, a co-living start-up in central Stockholm, where corporate culture and community building coalesce. Prior to the screening, we will be joined by Andrew Copolov who will be sharing his short film about ‘Gig Workers’ Hub’, the solidarity infrastructure he founded for food delivery workers to improve access to crucial amenities and community support.

Here, select entrepreneurs can rent a “sleeping pod” and become part of a lifestyle of nonstop networking and self-management. The community manager recruits new “family members” who match the start-up’s vision. Psychology coaches, hired by the company, teach self-leadership and the skills needed to survive in an “increasingly complex world.” 

The tenants themselves work hard at erasing the boundaries between their private lives and the company’s business model. Meanwhile the investor, sitting under the chandelier in his private residence, praises millennials for their lack of interest in owning things.

In a time when we are all expected to be in a constant mode of self-promotion and self-realisation, Good Life is a deep look at how the entrepreneurial ideology affects us. What happens to our humanity when we run our entire lives as business operations? What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self and community becomes a commodity?

Title: Good Life (2022) 
Run Time: 1hr 12mins⁠
Filmmakers: Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė
Language: English

Andrew Copolov is an architectural graduate and researcher from Melbourne. He completed a PhD in Architecture at Monash University in 2025. In 2022, he founded the Gig Workers’ Hub, an initiative providing platform-based delivery workers with amenities, services, and a space to socialise and organise.

Viktorija Šiaulytė (1985, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a curator and filmmaker based in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Viktorija works as an independent curator and producer within the fields of contemporary art, architecture and film. While working on the Good Life film project, together with Marta Dauliūtė she was awarded a research residency at Vilém Flusser Archive and presented events at the Transmediale festival for art and digital culture (Berlin, Germany) as well as the National Gallery of Art (Vilnius, Lithuania). Viktorija was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2020-21 and is currently a Research Affiliate at Art, Culture and Technology Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marta Dauliūtė (1984, Šiauliai, Lithuania) is film director and producer based in Stockholm. She holds an MFA in film directing at Valand Academy of Art, Sweden. Along with partner Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, she runs the film production company MDEMC. Marta’s films have been screened at Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, Kasseler Dokfest, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Ji.hlava IDFF among others. In addition to directing and producing short and feature documentaries, Marta is a co-organiser of Noncitizen, a nomadic film project. In 2012-2014 she chaired the Swedish Independent Filmmakers Association. 

This event is generously supported by Konpira Maru Wines,  Yumbo Soda Co and Shelter. 

Doors will open at 6.30 pm to allow attendees to explore Walsh Street and enjoy refreshments in the courtyard. The talk and screening will commence promptly at 7 pm.  

Before your visit, please note:
– Attendees must be 16 years and over.
– No external food or drink is permitted.
– Large bags and backpacks will need to be checked in at entry.
– Stiletto or pointed heels are not permitted due to our cork flooring.
– Tickets are refundable up to 72 hours prior to the event.
– Tickets may be exchanged as long as the purchaser advises us of the new attendee’s name via email. 

We offer discounted tickets to RBF Friends and Boyd Circle members – support the Foundation and join today.

Thandi Lane, Andrew MacKinnon, Sushma Prabhu, Tom Hibbert and Jasper Caverly present DADo’s 2025 program. 

Evenings with DADo offer an intimate commingling of film and dialogues centred around diverse historical and contemporary stories of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism. Feature-length films, documentaries, shorts and animations all find a home in Robin Boyd’s living room at Walsh Street. Guest speakers contribute unique perspectives on the various film subjects, kicking off the conversation in a home that decidedly sought to reject convention. 

Image: stills from Good Life 2022.