You Don't Need Global. You Need Neighbourhood.
Actions you can take for European Coworking Day, or any day! Five ways to build civic infrastructure in your neighbourhood—from a conversation to a continent-wide movement. Your neighbours don't know you exist. They walk past your building every day. They buy coffee three doors down. They complain about loneliness on the group chat. But they have no idea there's a space where people actually gather, work together, and build something that matters. You can't compete with the Death Star vent
Being Together Is the Point
Stop building programmes. Start building the community before you need it. You're building another programme. Workshop series. Speaker event. Networking night. Something structured to bring people together. And you're exhausted before it even starts. You know how this goes: * Weeks of planning * Marketing anxiety * Worrying about attendance * Then on the day, a handful show up * The c
You're Not Running a 'Real' Coworking Space—The Lie Independent Operators Tell Themselves
February 24th. Blue Garage, Lewisham. The room's full. Coworking operators, local authority people, housing associations, and artists. 60 people in an industrial makerspace with concrete floors and fabrication equipment in the background. The kind of space where real work happens, not the kind you photograph for Instagram. The conversations are good. Sharp. People are asking the right questions—How do we make coworking spaces profitable? What's our role in the future of work w
