The next FuturED conference will be held on the 5th October at Island School. It will focus on the theme of community and will be called “With Community comes Unity”. Arguably traditional close knit communities in Hong Kong are diminishing. Increased numbers of people live in high rise public housing estates or residential developments. The frenetic lives of many Hong Kongers preclude them from doing more to strengthen a sense of local community and identity. Disadvantaged people have little community infrastructure to fall back on outside the nuclear family. Thus it seems timely to reflect on what we mean by community and to ask how important it is to commit to making the city’s communities stronger and more sustainable.