About Us
Samara is a design studio at Airbnb exploring the future of human connection, building products and services that bring us closer to each other and with ourselves.
Its project, Backyard, is an initiative to prototype new ways that homes can be built and shared, guided by an ambition to realize more humanistic, future-oriented, and waste-conscious design. It investigates how buildings could utilize sophisticated manufacturing techniques, smart-home technologies, and vast insight from the Airbnb community to thoughtfully respond to changing owner or occupant needs over time.