Comments on: Third places and coworking, what are they?

By: Alexa Butt

Alexa Butt — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:35:53 +0000

I think co working is a great idea and this definition sums up the whole concept. As Andy stated in the first post “all in the same space, making connections, working creatively with as much or as little contact with one another as they desire.

By: Hogtown Consulting » Indoor Playground, drywall’s in now we wait for the slide

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:04:04 +0000

[...] Last night was the first open house for Indoor Playground, the new coworking office space that’s opening up on Richmond in the next month or so. Actually, I’m not sure that the Indoor Playground is going to have a slide, though that would be cool. It does look like it will have lots of other good stuff, particularly a really nice space and interesting people doing interesting stuff. [...]

By: pdinnen

pdinnen — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:09:31 +0000

Rohan
I agree, there does seem to be some blurring between the ideas of coworking and third places that maybe isn’t useful, I’ve blurred those concepts a little myself.

I do think though that the Innovation Commons idea, though primariliy one of coworking, can provide a space that has some of the features of a third place. I’m particularly thinking of the plans to incorporate a cafe into the space. Having that part of the space tuned to socialising then introduces some third spacish potential I think.

By: Rohan Jayasekera

Rohan Jayasekera — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:37:53 +0000

I think coworking and the Third Place are different things. A Third Place is somewhere like a bar where you hang out, and isn’t home and isn’t work. Coworking by contrast provides a workplace for those who wouldn’t otherwise have one outside their home. I think the root of the confusion is that people think of coworking as providing the same social benefits that third places do — which is not true; it provides the same social benefits that a workplace does.

By: pdinnen

pdinnen — Tue, 23 May 2006 13:11:36 +0000

Good idea Boris. I’ve added a category, http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/category/innovation-commons/

By: Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Tue, 23 May 2006 04:44:33 +0000

Great stuff, Patrick. Any way you can create a new category for “third place / coworking / commons related posts? Then I can suck that category feed directly into innovationcommons.ca

By: pdinnen

pdinnen — Sun, 21 May 2006 23:06:10 +0000

Yep, third place was named by an academic and it shows.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Sun, 21 May 2006 22:44:51 +0000

I like the ‘third place’ concept, but man, it needs a better name.