Rural coworking spaces in the COVID-19 era

Tomaz, Elisabete; Moriset, Bruno; Teller, Jacques

doi:10.4324/9781003181163-12

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“…For example, millennial workers can have less defined boundaries between work and leisure and therefore are more attracted to CWSs in town and city centre locations [25]. CWSs can overcome several challenges facing rural areas, such as lack of services and scarcity of social contact [26,27]. The social and collaborative potential of CWSs, including when located in public libraries, can allow fellow CWS users to become assets and resources for other users [28].…”

Section: Social Impacts: Residential Self-selection and Addressing Po...mentioning

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Identifying the Social, Urban, and Environmental Co-Benefits of Coworking Spaces in Irish Towns

Wall,

Crowe

2023

Sustainability

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Coworking spaces are shared workplaces in which desk space is available to remote workers, freelancers, and small enterprises. They offer the social, technological, and networking advantages of an office while allowing workers the freedom to reside in a location of their choice. Remote working has become a common work practice in recent years, accelerated by restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Irish Government policy strongly supports coworking spaces across the island to support employment diversity and retain populations in towns and villages. Along with the provision of viable workplaces, coworking spaces can provide a range of co-benefits to their localities, such as stimulating local economies and reducing commuting-related emissions. This paper describes a mixed-method study seeking to identify this range of co-benefits through a survey of coworking space users and semi-structured interviews with coworking space founders, managers, and coordinators. The study uses an integrative process to categorise the findings into social, urban, and environmental co-benefits. The research finds that locating a coworking space in a central rather than peripheral urban area can support and optimise many of these co-benefits.

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Section: Social Impacts: Residential Self-selection and Addressing Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the Social, Urban, and Environmental Co-Benefits of Coworking Spaces in Irish Towns

Wall,

Crowe

2023

Sustainability

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“…For this reason, more and more people who are currently forced to do remote online work are looking for a better quality of life that involves moving away from large urban centers, in search of greater contact with nature (Associação de Desenvolvimento Integrado da Rede das Aldeias de Montanha, 2020). Consequently, it is important to continue implementing coworking spaces since the number of digital nomads is also expected to grow in the coming years (Tomaz et al, 2021).…”

Section: The Effects Of Covid-19: New Opportunities For Coworking Spacesmentioning

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Changing Perspectives: The Role of Creative Industries in Social Innovation Projects to Empower Local Communities

Silva

Sarmento

2022

RLEC

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the notions of social life as we know them, so it is important to develop and mediate projects that meet the contexts of great social transformation we live. The COVID-19 crisis also affected rural areas that have sought to control rural exodus. However, new opportunities emerged for rural territories as the world adapted to the pandemic. In the central region of Portugal, the Association for the Integrated Development of the Mountain Villages Network, through its Mountain Villages project, seeks to promote the regional development of these cultural territories. For this purpose, it has been developing social innovation projects with enormous potential for the region’s social, economic, and cultural development. The association has begun creating two social innovation projects essential in developing the communities located in the Mountain Villages: the Queijeiras Project and the Cooperativa Coworking Spaces @Mountain Villages. This article presents both projects and emphasizes the importance of practices that lead to the positive development of society through the convening of creativity and creative industries in social innovation projects. The professional work and fieldwork carried out at the Association for the Integrated Development of the Mountain Villages Network and the Mountain Villages territories frame the study conducted, as do interviews and questionnaires with people and entities linked to the projects. The results presented in the article demonstrate how both projects are extremely valuable to understand the importance of building possibilities for the reinterpretation and empowerment of local communities that are often neglected. Furthermore, they also reveal an expansion from the local to the global, that is, an interaction of global environments with local cultures, creating an intercultural space so important in our globalized world.

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“…This has given rise to what we might call the third wave of coworking spaces, in which workers who choose to live far from their offices need social interaction (Tomaz et al . 2021) and the rural economy offers them plenty of (tourist) space at competitive real estate cost (Vogl and Micek 2022).…”

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“…However, the non‐metropolitan regions of some European economies have recently attracted new coworking spaces – for example, Catalonia (Capdevila 2021), but also rural areas of Portugal and France (Tomaz et al . 2021). This has not only been due to COVID‐19‐driven migration to less‐dense areas but also to some technological advancements that occurred in rural areas and have attracted remote workers.…”

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Location Patterns and Drivers of Coworking Spaces in European Regions

Méndez‐Ortega,

Smit,

Micek

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The location patterns of new working spaces and the factors driving their emergence have been widely studied in Europe. However, research has mainly focused on specific countries and very local areas. We widen this perspective to a regional one and conduct a cross‐country study of the location patterns and determinants of today's main new working spaces, specifically coworking spaces that facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing. Coworking spaces are traditionally associated in the literature with vibrant urban places, but they are also found in non‐metropolitan regions. Drawing on a unique data set of coworking space locations in four large European countries (Spain, France, Germany and Poland), we test how demographic, economic, structural, technological and accessibility‐related determinants affect the location of these spaces. We then investigate whether the identified determinants vary between metropolitan and non‐metropolitan and between countries, controlling for spatial effects.

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Rural coworking spaces in the COVID-19 era

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Identifying the Social, Urban, and Environmental Co-Benefits of Coworking Spaces in Irish Towns

Identifying the Social, Urban, and Environmental Co-Benefits of Coworking Spaces in Irish Towns

Changing Perspectives: The Role of Creative Industries in Social Innovation Projects to Empower Local Communities

Location Patterns and Drivers of Coworking Spaces in European Regions

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