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 > On Jan 12, 2016, at 3:38 AM, Marko Orel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
