Coworking: A community of work / Article

[Marko Orel]

Greetings,

For the last couple of years, I’m dealing with research (as a PhD candidate) on how relations between working individuals who use open collaborative spaces in certain period of time are being formed via both moderated and spontaneous networking processes. In the meantime, I managed to open with the two other co-founders a coworking space and creative centre (Creative Centre Poligon) in Ljubljana, Slovenia (Europe) which has grown to one of the biggest in the region (150 members & 250 events annually) with amazing community based on values of sharing, collaborating and helping each other.

 

Anyhow, recently I have published an academic article (in co-authorship) - we tried to examine the specific needs of the rising creative class, identifying their urgent need for uninhibited sharing of information, knowledge, ideas and material resources. In the article, we argue that coworking spaces are favoured by the creative class, because they offer a community of work which facilitates the culture of sharing. To illustrate what it takes to establish such a community of work, we present a case study of before mentioned Creative Centre Poligon which suggests that community building is a multi-step process that needs careful management and plenty of time.

 

If anybody out there is interested on how (creative) community can co-create a coworking space and thus embodies a bottom-up process, I kindly invite you to take a look at the article and share your thoughts with me.

 

Best,

Marko Orel

Co-founder

Creative Centre Poligon

[Jerome Chang]

I only read your abstract and it seems the last sentence could/should say, "focus on the community first [at existing physical spaces not building new coworking spaces]!"...which is the mantra in these circles!

Jerome

www.BLANKSPACES.com

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