Emerging Workplaces in Post-Functionalist Cities

Marino, Mina Di; Lapintie, Kimmo

doi:10.1080/10630732.2017.1297520

Cited by 54 publications

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“…Yet coworking presents a unique case because, in the face of long-term work fragmentation and outsourcing, coworking promises local communities and collaboration within them. Beyond professional communication, coworking has been studied in different countries, continents, and milieus from different disciplinary perspectives: psychology (Gerdenitsch et al 2016), sociology (Gandini 2015;Ivaldi et al 2018), economic planning (Avdikos and Kalogeresis 2017), urban informatics (Bilandzic 2013), management (Butcher 2013;Capdevila 2015;Jakonen et al 2017;Leclercq-Vandelannoitte & Isaac 2016;Sebekstova et al 2017), design (Parrino 2015), real estate (Green 2014), urban studies (di Marino & Lapintie 2017;Groot 2013;Mariotti et al 2017), organization studies (Garrett et al 2017), and engineering Neonen 2016, 2017;Liimatainen 2015). Although coworking is so varied and implemented in a number of different ways, a common thread appears throughout much of the literature, including both formal studies and the coworking literature.…”

Section: Takedownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

Spinuzzi

Bodrožić

Scaratti

et al. 2018

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Coworking spaces are shared working environments in which independent knowledge workers gather. Coworking is consistently described in terms of community and collaboration—yet these terms are defined inconsistently in the coworking literature. This study reviews the literature on coworking to better examine how community relates to collaboration. To anchor a more systematic analysis of community in coworking, the authors introduce Adler and Heckscher’s typology of communities; apply it to a study of six coworking spaces in the United States, Italy, and Serbia; and develop the typology to better understand coworking.

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Section: Takedownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

Spinuzzi

Bodrožić

Scaratti

et al. 2018

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

152

115

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Section: New Forms Of Workplace: the Rise Of Coworking Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this regard, Martins [16] (p. 142) also adds that "The coffee shop, the pub or the park are more than spaces for pursuing creative lifestyles; they are part of a complex network of spaces that are used, and essential, for digital production". Others have asserted that such public spaces, which are not planned as official working environments, are increasingly being occupied as spaces for work [17]. Some scholars position new types of workplaces, such as CSs, within the wider collection of 'third spaces for work, learning and play', which may facilitate formal productive activities within informal social interactions, often accompanied with direct/indirect learning programmes and the use of new technologies [18].…”

Section: New Forms Of Workplace: the Rise Of Coworking Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coworking Spaces and New Social Relations: A Focus on the Social Streets in Italy

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The late 2000s witnessed a wide diffusion of innovative workplaces, named coworking spaces, designed to host creative people and entrepreneurs: the coworkers. Sharing the same space may provide a collaborative community to those kinds of workers who otherwise would not enjoy the relational component associated with a traditional corporate office. Coworking spaces can bring several benefits to freelancers and independent workers, such as knowledge transfer, informal exchange, cooperation, and forms of horizontal interaction with others, as well as business opportunities. Moreover, additional effects may concern the urban context: from community building, with the subsequent creation of social streets, and the improvement of the surrounding public space, to a wider urban revitalization, both from an economic and spatial point of view. These “indirect” effects are neglected by the literature, which mainly focuses on the positive impact on the workers’ performance. The present paper aimed to fill the gap in the literature by exploring the effects of coworking spaces in Italy on the local context, devoting particular attention to the relation with social streets. To reach this goal, the answers (320) to an on-line questionnaire addressed to coworkers were analysed. The results showed that three quarters of the coworkers reported a positive impact of coworking on the urban and local context, where 10 out of 100 coworking spaces developed and/or participated in social streets located in Italian cities, but also in the suburban and peripheral areas.

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“…Despite the expansion of SWS models such as WeWork, (valued at about $17 billion dollars in 2017 (Reuters 2017)), the literature on various models of SWS, including live/work communities (Alizadeh 2012;Alizadeh and Sipe 2013), third-spaces (Di Marino and Lapintie (2017) and co-working spaces (Kojo and Nenonen 2017;Spinuzzi 2012) indicate that the current scale of shared work may not currently have the same disruptive potential seen with Uber and AirBnB. However, the potential for SWS to disrupt current markets may manifest at different scales and times in cities and regions.…”

Section: The Shared Economy and Implications For Working Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the potential for SWS to disrupt current markets may manifest at different scales and times in cities and regions. Conventional spaces in cities and towns, such as libraries and cafes, are increasingly utilised as places of work, despite not being originally planned to accommodate such practices (Bilandzic and Foth 2013;Di Marino and Lapintie 2017). Case study research in Queensland and the United States finds SWS are becoming integrated by developers into master-planned communities as a way to enable workers to work close to home and activate local neighbourhood centres (Alizadeh 2012).…”

Section: The Shared Economy and Implications For Working Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise of Shared Work Spaces: A Disruption to Urban Planning Policy?

Babb

Curtis

McLeod

2018

Urban Policy and Research

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New models of shared work spaces have the potential to disrupt traditional employment spaces. The full implications of these new employment spaces for urban policy and planning are unclear.Drawing on a pilot study of Greater Perth and regional Western Australia, current planning policies that facilitate, or create barriers to, the success of shared work spaces are examined. Interviews with a sample of managers and users of shared work spaces are reported.Shared work spaces are emerging in regulatory voids left by outdated policy frameworks. They escape adverse policy settings by relying on the forward thinking of local regulators seeking to revitalise urban centres. The success of innovative repurposing of space brings into question the efficacy and purpose of more prescriptive land use regulations and policies.

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Emerging Workplaces in Post-Functionalist Cities

Cited by 54 publications

References 33 publications

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

Coworking Spaces and New Social Relations: A Focus on the Social Streets in Italy

The Rise of Shared Work Spaces: A Disruption to Urban Planning Policy?

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