A quick update on the post about Coworking Spaces.
The response to this was very positive - as well as getting in touch with Ben from Inventicus who has already been researching the idea (and was looking for partners), Laura from Unlimited also responded saying she’d been looking into setting up something similar to The Hub in Birmingham.
Lawrence Cairns-Smith from The Studio in Cannon St. (ex Orange Studio) also got in touch as well a number of people who said they’d love to use a space like this if it existed.
So we’re getting together for a meeting next Thursday (5th April), 6pm at the Kitchen (Custard Factory) to see how we can move forward with this. Laura will hopefully from this point on be spending a significant portion of her time devoted to the project so it looks like there’s real potential for this to happen.
If anyone else is interested in coming along then please do - the more input the better.
Also I’d really like to canvas some opinion before the meeting so if you have any.
What kinds of features would you like in a coworking space? Where would you like it to be? How often would you use it?
Either respond using comments or email me direct.
Some links to get your creative juices flowing:
- Article on Coworking spaces from The Creativity Exchange
- Lemon Studios
- The Hub
- Coworking spaces wiki
I’ll post more after the meet.
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Seen this? http://creativespaceagency.co.uk/
And this: http://coworkingeugene.com/
[…] As well as being a shared working space there’s a community aspect to the membership which in The Hub’s case centres around social and environmental businesses. I think this is a great idea and looking at the member’s photos on the wall I think I’m going to meet some interesting people as I start to go more often. As you may have seen on this blog a few of us have been throwing around the idea of setting one of these up in Birmingham and the idea seems to have legs. I’ll keep you posted as things move forward. […]
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