An overview of the Origin of Spaces EU project which is bringing together great CoWorking projects; in Bilbao ZAWP, Bordeaux Projet Darwin, Lewisham Capture Arts, Lisbon LX Factory and Pula (Croatia) ROJCnet.In order to better understand our individual successes and share our practice with others.

1. The Origin of Spaces #oosEU
Co-Creating Coworking Spaces

2. A Curated Conversation
Scoping the project & its aspirations

3. Overview
• We are a group of people from across
Europe passionate about developing a
new economy for the 21st Century
• We see coworking as a key dimension of
what could be a collaborative
networked economy
• Bilbao, Bordeaux, Lewisham, Lisboa,
Pula (Croatia)

4. Co-Creating Coworking Spaces
• So what are we co-creating ?
1. What is Coworking (Jean-pierre, Fernando, PaulH,
Marino)
2. Building knowledge (Filipa, Manuel, Ruth, Debs)
3. Ecological Values (Sylvain, Fred, Daniela)
4. Transition Models (Christiaan, PaulC, Camille)
5. Project aspirations
6. Project resources and links

5. Bilbao; Project ZAWP
Experimentation, Production Investigation

6. 1. What is Coworking?
• Jean-Pierre
• This project aims at collecting new practices of
working in Europe, and share them with other
organizations and stakeholders to intend to foster
the creation of shared and sustainable places
• Creative laboratory experiences for coworking
methods, co-deciding in trans-sectorial places
(governance), co-responsibility on ecological
issues, and social entrepreneurship.

7. What is Coworking?
• Fernando
• Coworking is neither a consequence or a
reaction; It is both in REALITY.
• It is a consequence because we face a massive
growing contingent of freelancers.
• It is a reaction also because these freelancers
are embracing new paradigms of life, work,
leisure and education towards an individual
collective new “co-perma-circular-life”

8. What is Coworking?
• Marino ROJC
• My professional expectations are to broaden up
knowledge and know-how on; ecological
sustainability, coworking, social
entrepreneurship, partnership & participatory
governance.
• Get new ideas, change ways of thinking &
creating in a real international project network
team. To build the relevant toolbox to help other
colleagues.
• Personal; meet inspiring people, places, stories.

9. What is Coworking?
• Paul Hadfield
• The aim of the project is to understand what
coworking is, to explain the benefits of
coworking and explain how coworking can be
developed elsewhere.
• We should disseminate our learning, educate
and influence a wide audience of stakeholders
about coworking

10. Lisboa; LX Factory
An experience factory for everyone

11. 2. Building Coworking Knowledge
• Filipa
• Trying out new methodologies, communicating
better, understanding our accomplishments,
where we are heading and what we can improve;
knowledge exchange that builds opportunities for
similar projects to emerge…
• It’s an opportunity to grow on a personal level
learning languages, and more about ecological
know-how, a theme that is not very developed in
Portugal.

12. 2. Building Coworking Knowledge
• Ruth
• My motivation is sharing knowledge & experiences
with other European organisations.
• Most important is communicating information with
others in open platforms to bring Europe closer to
local institutions; our organisation works like a
canal.
• We create good practices in new models in
governance, ecological transition and coworking
knowledge involving local communities.

13. Building Coworking Knowledge
• Manuel Larania
• Contribute to setting up an interesting framework
that enables a better understanding of how new
innovation spaces can be promoted.
• What role for governance, policy and different
kinds of actors?
• How can creation and growth processes be
managed?
• I hope to contribute to consolidate a pan-Europe
work group focused on these issues..

14. Building Coworking Knowledge
• Debs Astell
• My key motivational driver is knowledge and
the sharing of that knowledge to further
societal change and transition.
• If we can take the amazing values of the
partnership coworking hubs and clusters, learn
and replicate them in other places that will be a
meaningful and profound measure of success.

15. Bordeaux; Projet Darwin
Enabling Ecological Transitions,

16. 3. Developing Ecological values & Civil
Society
• Sylvain
• Developing participation into wider thinking
around ecological transition.
• Designing a professional European network of
entrepreneurs and stakeholders.
• Designing a rational and useable toolbox
enabling anyone who wants to create a
coworking place to find the tools and the
people to put it in place.

17. Ecological values & Civil Society
• Danijela
• I am interested in innovative social models,
cooperation in art, new economics and
transition initiatives and possibilities to travel.
• Meeting people of common interests, values
and occupations, sharing knowledge,
experiences and goodwill, having fun and
getting new friends. It is a good way to improve
our lives giving something to our communities.

18. Ecological values & Civil Society
• Fred
• To create a model of best practice in
coworking, co-creation & ecological know-how
that can be shared across Europe through a
toolbox to help transform abandoned places.
• All this reflecting our understanding of
participatory governance, how to build civil
society and the networked economy through
trust, collaboration and human creativity.

19. PULA (HR) ROJCnet
Developing Participatory Governance

20. 4. How do we transition?
• Camille
• To create professional European communities
around innovative ecological and economical
practices.
• To share know-how in a collaborative toolbox to
gather anyone who wants to work in a participative
approach and promote it to others.
• Inspire new collaborative thinking and together
get used to the changes of the current climate.

21. How do we transition?
• Paul Chapman
• To learn about the value of the coworking
approach and it’s relevance (locally) and to
Lewisham. To be in a position to impact the
way the Council utilises the approach.
• To improve my project management skills and
find opportunities for new partners, projects
and possibilities for myself and Lewisham

22. How do we transition?
• Christiaan
• Create a critical frame on transitional practices for
optimisation and effectiveness towards ecological
and economical transition.
• Create real world credibility for alternative and
complementary transitional practices.
• Develop know-how for real space planning issues
in the fluid and dispersed real time organisation of
these practices.
• Establish social and spatial relevance of small scale
incremental development.

23. 5. The Origin of Spaces aspirations
• We have experience of coworking in specific
localities in various European countries
• The Origin of Spaces project will identify best
practice in coworking, social enterprise,
participatory governance, ecological
transitions & working with local communities
• We will share our experience and develop new
guidance tools. Watch out for our DOODle 2015

24. The Origin of Spaces Resources
• ZAWP in Bilbao
• Projet Darwin in Bordeaux
• Capture Arts in Lewisham
• LX Factory in Lisboa
• Rojcnet in Pula
• Research Planning Document (PDF)
• Innovative Practices planing ideas
• Origin of Spaces Facebook page
• Twitter List & #hashtag #oosEU

25. The Origin of Spaces Next Steps 2015-
2016
• Toolbox to share our practice; see
• Third Place EU (Toolbox blog - ongoing)
• Toolbox Vision (presentation)
• Toolbox Design (presentation)
• Origin of Spaces Facebook page
• Twitter List & #hashtag #oosEU
“An encouraging, community, sharing platform
of different practice”

26. The Origin of Spaces #oosEU
Co-Creating Coworking Spaces