the history of co
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The History of Coworking As presented from the perspective of Tony Bacigalupo.
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How to approach this?
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How to approach this?
Three perspectives:
How to approach this?
Three perspectives: Big history, recent history, and future history.
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Big history, ! Recent history, ! Future history.!
Big history
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Independent and
scattered
Starting to
reconvene
New, networked systems
Throughout history, mankind has been finding ways to
Gather with intention out of mutual self-interest.
It is in our nature.
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Traditional Full-time
Employment
Independent and
scattered
Starting to
reconvene
New, networked systems
Coworking is
Natural. Emergent. Organic.
And hormone-free!
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Recent history
Pre-coworking v! 8/8/05
Pre-coworking v! 8/8/05
DTUT
Centre for Social Innovation
Plug & Play
Nutopia
Gate-3 Work Club
The first Coworking Space
Opens!
8/8/05
Jelly
3/14/06
Hat Factory
6/3/06
Google Group
January 2006
Coworking Wiki
1/25/06
Citizen Space
11/1/06
Core Values
2007
Indy Hall
9/1/07
Coworking in
NY Times
2/20/08
Coworking meetup at the Hotel San Jose
at SXSW
3/7/08
Coworking on CNN
3/31/08
Coworking Visa
8/22/08
Purchase of
coworking.com
2/15/10
WeWork Founded
2/15/10
Deskmag launches
7/10/10
Emergent Research counts Over 250 US Coworking Spaces
9/14/10
The first Coworking Europe Conference
11/19/10
Coworking Unconference in Austin
3/10/11
Regus invents
coworking!
Late 2011
2,000 coworking spaces
October 2012
110,000 members
of coworking spaces
2/1/13
WeWork raises $355 million smackeroos
12/15/14
Future history
Coworking has the potential to change the world’s (largely pretty rotten) relationship with work forever.
As more and more of these communities form and mature, they evolve into increasingly sophisticated support systems for this new workforce. They shift the role work plays in our lives. At least…
They can if they want to.
While the emergence of coworking communities is a natural phenomenon, the extent to which they support this new
workforce is something that’s yet to be determined.
As coworking becomes increasingly identified with the workspace rental business model it is often predicated on, the need grows for these spaces to engage in meaningful
conversation around how they can be the best possible vehicles for facilitating this shift.
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what is the historyof coworking 100 years from now?
You are the history of coworking.
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