Housing has become a market entity and authorities providing dwelling have lost their power over this task. In Czech Republic there is a great stigmatisation of common and shared forms of property and use. However, there are dozens of cooperative and commune housing of high architecture quality from interwar period, of interesting typologies containing exterior common semi-public spaces. What does it mean, when the form of ownership changed, but the space remained the same? How can we use this environment for our natural tendency of socialization, especially in times of limited possibilities and lock down? The project is taking place in selected houses and their yards/gardens, where, based on the intensity of use, they are documented (filmed/photographed) and revived by activities with the residents focusing on communication, listening and hand-working. The project is part of the author's research and it will further develop the revision of this typology in a fictive housing project.