10 successful campaigns which collectively raised over 1.8 million dollars: who’s behind all this? Just the coworkers at Poligon Creative Centre. In this in-depth interview we hear about one coworking space’s use of crowdfunding and other initiatives that provide economic value for members.

From productivity experiments in German factories, to the 1100-ft desk, companies have experimented with shared workspace, leading us to our current experiment in creating dynamic coworking and maker spaces. PhD researcher Perttu Salovaara discusses the history of shared workspace and the communities that form within them.

People are sharing workspace and coworking is becoming a norm. Now, an older sharing concept — bartering time and skills in lieu of payment — is making a comeback and it may be happening in a coworking space near you.

Where does a coworking space’s culture come from? In my experience coworking in Paris and Nice, France, some spaces are transformational and rich with community, and others border on terrible. It has everything to do with who’s in charge.

We named our magazine after an amorphous vision of what a new worker might be, but that doesn’t necessarily make us experts as to what the hell a new worker actually is. So we called for help. Here we talk to coworking space owners in Morocco and New York about the new economy (and how […]