Kategoriearchiv: Videos

Already one of the great fruits of the widespread discussion on free coworking is the acknowledgement that paid coworking has lost its bearings in many instances. Alex Hillman on his blog dangerouslyawesome puts it like this: „MANY paid coworking spaces aren’t differentiating themselves from business centers and aren’t keeping in line with the coworking core […]

Philip Rosedale, the creator of  Second Life is interested in coworking and the future of work. With his new company „Coffee & Power“ he is trying to connect the techie and coworking community. With three so called „Workclubs“ already opened in San Francisco, Santa Monica & Portland (Oregon) (see Free Coworking Directory) he attempts to […]

To all talented and creative people out there: Share your talent and share your skills. Follow the great example of Nice Raymond from LA and enter your skills and projects. Skill Sharing can be extremely diverse and surprising. If you do not enter, we cannot connect with you: For more information on Free Coworking please […]

To develop „free coworking“ alongside „paid coworking“, it is necessary to focus more on team work and common projects. When we acknowledge the value of parallel thinking in concert with serendipity we are very close to practising „Free Coworking„. A lot of  us  „freelancers“ and „coworkers“ work by ourselves: Graphic Designers, Texters, Photographers, Translators, Programmers, […]

Situated in the „Northern Quarter“ of Manchester (UK), MadLab offers a new kind of  „coworking“ experience. Aimed at both creatives and technologists, the facility provides a space and resources for collaboration, professional development and discovery. As the primary focus of the laboratory has never been „coworking only“, it possesses a foundation or business model that, […]

As Darren MacDonald from Canada says it in his TEDx talk:“ It is the team, that produces the breakthrough!“ I fully agree with him. Another entry in the „Free Coworking Skill Sharing“ yesterday, Jerry Stärker from Austria noticed, that there is no „extra field“ for videos. Thanks to these very valuable responses, we now have […]

In his talk on „Science and Practice of Cooperation“ (see Video below thx David Hodgson for sharing) Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler develops the idea of systems of self-interest and systems of collaboration. In terms of computer hardware and software these systems could be identified with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on the one […]

Many people think that „Free Coworking“ is just an idea. No!!! There are already places that offer „Free Coworking“!!! One of them is Gangplank in Chandler (Arizona). One very important contributor to finance „Gangplank“ is the council of Chandler: „Gangplank is a meeting place available to anyone interested in working in an environment that fosters […]

Sometimes everything looks great when you look at a building. A wonderful concept. Excellent ideas. An extremely unusual construction, but for some reason one gets the impression that something did not quite connect in the end. Where is the community? How do people use the building in practice? As I have no inside information, I can […]

Thank you Frigyes Fogel for your film „The (R)evolution – Cultural Creatives 1.0“ !!! (Thx Christopher Schmidhofer for sharing). Engage in „Free Coworking“ and meet fellow Cultural Creatives. The (R)evolution – Cultural Creatives 1.0 from Frigyes Fogel on Vimeo.